52 Times Britain was a Bellend Quotes

“Essentially a big part of why homosexuality was outlawed in these countries was because we were worried we might like it.”
― James Felton, 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School

“In 1943 and 1944, we cooked up five million anthrax cakes and created customised RAF planes to drop them. We didn’t do it only because it looked like Germany was close to surrendering, and we knew that the mess would take decades to clear up.”
― James Felton, 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School

“In Victorian Britain, as well as regular ‘you’re alright’ Valentine’s cards, a tradition started where people sent out ‘Vinegar Valentines’ – cards to tell strangers, or even friends, that you secretly hated them, or some other horrible thing that you would never say to their face.”
― James Felton, 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School

“Intervening and trying to save people – e.g. by giving starving people food – would only prolong suffering, and should be avoided in favour of letting them die out until the population reached a sustainable level. This was all well and good in theory (it wasn’t though), but unfortunately people in power saw the famine in Ireland and thought ‘that’s happening in practice, that is.”
― James Felton, 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School

“WE BROUGHT AN ELEPHANT TO ENGLAND, MADE IT LIVE IN THE TOWER OF LONDON WITH A POLAR BEAR AND GOT IT WANKERED ON WINE”
― James Felton, 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School