Why This Exists
Growing up ashamed.
London. Empire, colonialism, oppression. That was the part of British history I'd been taught. Painted as the oppressor before I'd done anything at all. My friends knew their cultures, their histories, their traditions. I was told we didn't really have one.
A sticker on a wall.
Walking through Merton Abbey Mills, I passed a small sticker. It said: "Common law was written here."
The rabbit hole.
I went home and started digging. The sticker was telling the truth. When I came back to find it again, no trace of it remained.
The tip of the iceberg.
Ancient Britons whose tin built the Bronze Age. Celts who held off the Roman Empire. The inventors who gave the world the telephone, the television, the computer, the jet engine. The sugar boycott. The Match Girls. Trial by jury, ordinary people standing between the accused and the state for nearly a thousand years. The petitions that broke records. The sailors who died stopping slave ships.
Why this exists.
To put these stories where everyone can find them. To wake us up to what we're capable of when we work together. Because we are the power. We always have been. We just forgot.
You belong here too.
If you've ever felt like something was missing, like your story was incomplete, you're not alone. Thousands of people are discovering this alongside me. And every one of them stands a little taller.
