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Dr John Hart
BT Tower, 21st May 2012
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A moderate-sized island with an immoderate destiny
Everyone else is ‘overseas’
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Mission Statement
‘We have distilled Britain’s history by compiling a CV for the nation to encourage a buoyant
sense of belonging and to inspire the
Influential Islanders as they ‘apply for the future’
The National CV Group
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CV format
- Brief, upbeat, accurate
- New information loads at the top
- Forward-looking history!
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The National CV is a history of Britain, told as if Britain were a person
Instead of applying for a job, Britain is‘applying for the future’
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Note
Certain CV claims look overblown,
but aren’t on deeper inspection…
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CV in Brief
(2 pager, on our free website)
CV in Full
(30 pages, eBook)
CVpedia
(300+ pages, on free website)
CVpedia More Articles
(24 so far, on specialist topics, on website)
CAUTION
Collision hazard:
submerged data
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Megalithic Culture: before Sumer & Ancient Egypt
Source: Colin Renfrew
Silbury Hill & Avebury Stone Circle,20 miles north of Stonehenge
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White horse at Uffington, ~ 1000 BC
Unique hill figures
Source: Betthany Hughes
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Flood story: bursting of the Lake of Floods; this caused a rushing of water over all the land;
only Dwyvan and his wife Dwyvack escaped in a boat, to repopulate the Isle of Britain
We have our very own Noah
Source: Welsh Triads
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Pioneer flyers
Malmesbury Abbey, AD 1010
King Bladud, 800s BC Sources: Tysilio & William of Malmesbury
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We pioneered the sacking of Rome
In 390 BC Brennus of Britain led the
Gauls & Britons in the Sack of Rome
Sources: Livy, Tysilio, German Chronicles etc
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We invented Druidism
Source: Julius Caesar
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Constantine the Great, AD 272-337,the first Christian Roman EmperorHelen of
ColchesterAD 248-c330
Birth of Christendom
Sources: Tysilio, R W Morgan
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We put the ‘Merry’ into Merry Christmas
Source: Holinshed’s Scottish Chronicles
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Standardised writing
Alcuin of York, AD 789
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Pioneering exports
Tin (Bronze Age)
Wool (Middle Ages)
Coal & manufactures (Industrial Revolution)
Oil & gas (recent era)
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Britain ’s history of pioneering goes way back
…and covers a wider range of activities than is usually appreciated
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First motor car: Christopher Holtum
1769
1885
1711
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The weekend:Robert Walpole
(1676-1745)
Sandwich, bottled beer, appreciation of fine wine, milk chocolate, ice cream,
Scotch, business suit
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Unique anti-slavery record
William Wilberforce, abolition of slavery,
early 1800s
N.B. Slavery first outlawed here in 1102
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Found the three main subatomic
particles, split first atom, named Big
Bang, postulated antimatter
Discovered a quarter of the
elements of the Periodic Table of the
Elements
Britain has the greatest scientific tradition of any nation (Newton, Darwin, Faraday, Maxwell, Crick,
Sanger)
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Modern marvels
World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee,
1989)
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Today’s most Influential Islander
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What we tell the youngsters in schools…
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Britain has made the most
outsized contribution to civilisation of anywhere on
Earth, while having under 1% of the world ’s people and less than 0.2% of the
land
Overarching statement:
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Motion due to the force of history
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And the moral of this tale?
[Still for youngsters]
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You too can make a contribution that is
and become an
Influential Islander
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The National CV Group
wishes you the utmost good luck
in
‘Applying for the future’
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Thank youLaunch attendeesThat’s you!
SponsorsBT Group plc
Caroline WatersVal RiskRichard NorrisLaurie RobinsonBev Woods
Brian WatsonRalph Ellis
AuthorsPeter MedhurstLorna TaylorKeith SinfieldRalph EllisJane ClementsRoger BurtDavid Abbott & Catherine Glass AbbottJohn ChapleAlan Wilson & Baram BlackettRupert WilloughbyBill CooperChristine PrestonJoan Green
SupportFrank Xerox (artwork & website)Steve Sharples (music)Patrick RobertsonRichard HallRachel BellSue WilkensTadley & District History SocietyTadley Library
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