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History of Ideas: George Orwell

Past Present Future

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The Three Differentiating Features of English Public Life

Britain, and I have to say Britain here, also acquired an empire. This is an imperial people. British power and British wealth rests on its imperial possessions. People don't think about it that much. Ordinary English people aren't particularly aware of the ways in which the empire underpins their way of life. The Empire is both completely central to the English way of life and rarely discussed.

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