History
St Buryan and the surrounding area is rich in history and has been a centre of human activity for several thousand years.
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“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations ... all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)