Thread to celebrate Empire Day! 🇬🇧

'I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.'

- Joseph Chamberlain, Statesman

'As we study the [British] Empire's destiny, we are bound to think of it less as a human achievement than as an instrument of Divine Providence for the promotion of the progress of mankind.'

- Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister

Happy St George’s Day to all Americans of English ancestry!

Thread to celebrate Anglo-America.

'I am a believer in the fact that it is for the good of the world that the English-speaking race should hold as much of the world’s surface as possible.'

- Theodore Roosevelt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸 We are great because we are a part of the great Anglo-Saxon cultural sphere; a section detached only after a century and a half of heavy colonisation and English rule, which gave to our land the ineradicable stamp of British civilisation.

- H.P. Lovecraft 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸

Thread🧵Last Whites of the East End: 90 year-old widow Eileen prepares to move out of her life long neighbourhood in London after becoming one of the few remaining native English residents due to immigration. Her elderly friends feel they are now foreigners in their own country https://t.co/wqKASdl0az

https://twitter.com/thatalexwoman/status/1672998444133236738

Candid scene from ‘Last Whites of the East End’ with fifth-generation East Ender Tony discussing the worry about sending his daughter to a ‘diverse’ school - An increasingly common phenomenon in the UK. White British pupils now make up only 24% of school students in London.

The Vanishing: The erasure of Jews from American life.

Just 4% of elite American academics under 30 are Jewish (compared to 21% of boomers). The steep decline of Jewish editors at the Harvard Law Review (down roughly 50% in less than 10 years).

tabletmag.com/sections/news/… In 2014 there were 16-20 Jewish artists featured at the Whitney Biennial. The 2022 biennial featured just 1-2 Jews.

Comb through the dozens of Jewish names for the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship (I count 30-40). You’ll have a much harder time finding them 10 years later (14-16).

Happy St George’s Day New Zealand!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇿: At the last census, at least 30%-40% of New Zealanders reported having English Ancestry. Almost all the founders and early leaders of New Zealand were born in English of English ancestry: James Busby, William Hobson and Captain Cook. Governor Hobson (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿), you should stay with us & be like a father. If you go away then the French or the rum sellers will take us Maori over. How can we know what the future will bring? If you stay, we can be 'all as one' with you and the missionaries.

- Hōne Heke, Māori Chief 🇳🇿

Happy St George’s Day Canada! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦At the 2021 census, 17% of Canadians (6m people) reported having English ancestry, making them the largest ethnic group after ‘Canadian’. Much of Canadian culture, customs and heritage have their roots in England. (1/4). Wolford Chapel, England.

It was the Chapel of General John Simcoe, who became Upper Canada's 1st Lieutenant General in the reorganisation of Canada. The Province of Ontario, in honour of his importance took control of the Chapel as of 1966, where a Canadian flag flies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦

Happy St George’s Day to Americans of English ancestry! Here is a thread to celebrate Anglo-America.

Blood is thicker than water; we are all Englishmen, and need just such a leveler of political barriers as this to remind us of our common origin.

- H. P. Lovecraft 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸 The American is the Englishman left to himself.

- Alex de Tocqueville 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸

Happy Saint George’s Day! Here is a thread of quotes about England to celebrate.

Heaven take thy soul, and England keep my bones.

– William Shakespeare 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

– William Shakespeare (Richard II) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Happy Waitangi Day! Below is a thread to celebrate the great nation of New Zealand:

Today is the national day of New Zealand which commentates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi by representatives of the British Crown and Māori chiefs on the 6th February, 1840 🇳🇿 It was believed that New Zealand should be reserved for people of British descent. Britannia, the helmeted woman symbolising Britain, was on New Zealand’s penny coin for many years.

-NZ Ministry for Culture & Heritage Website. Photo taken in New Zealand during World War One 🇳🇿

🧵Thread: Demographics of the 9 Regions in England..

Starting with South West England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿:

White: 93%
>🇬🇧: 88%
>🇮🇪: 1%
>🇪🇺: 4%

Asian: 3%
>🇮🇳: 1%
>🇨🇳: 1%
>🇵🇰🇧🇩Other: 1%

Black: 1%
>🇳🇬🇯🇲: 1%

Mixed Race: 2%
>🇬🇧🇳🇬🇯🇲White/Black: 1%
>🇬🇧🇮🇳White/Asian: 1%

Other: 1% Demographics of South East England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿:

White: 86%
>🇬🇧: 79%
>🇮🇪: 1%
>🇪🇺: 6%

Asian: 7%
>🇮🇳: 3%
>🇵🇰: 2%
>🇨🇳🇧🇩Other: 2%

Black: 2%
>🇳🇬African: 1%
>🇯🇲Caribbean: 1%

Mixed Race: 3%
>🇬🇧🇳🇬🇯🇲White/Black: 1%
>🇬🇧🇮🇳White/Asian: 1%
> Other Mixed: 1%

Other: 1% (Arabs etc)

🧵Proportion of white births in each region of England (1/4) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Proportion of Asian births in each region of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Terra Nova Expedition was an expedition lead by Robert Falcon Scott to Antarctica which took place between 1910 & 1913.

🇬🇧🧵All five explorers would perish during the expedition. Below is a thread of Scott’s Journal entries, please read of their forgotten tale & heroism: I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.