Influential British think tank says proposed Festival of Great Britain in 2022 will not work across UK
“The fighting didn’t just stop in November 1918 as Ireland knows only too well. The view of the Government as expressed by ministers and for the First World War was that getting to the finishing line of November the 11th was about as much as they had stamina for,” he said.
Sir Hew said the British public was “extraordinarily ignorant” about their country’s imperial past. “They don’t even have a nostalgic view of Empire. They have forgotten they even had one.”
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