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When was the best time to be British?

Host_Ryan - One Show team | 14:23 UK time, Monday, 6 October 2008

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This week our One Show reportersÌýhave beenÌýlooking at some of their own 'Best times to be British'.

Lucy Siegle has chosen for her Best Time to be British. She travels to the Isle of Man asÌýthis was whereÌýthe BritishÌýHoliday Camp was first invented.

Dan Snow has chosen as his Best Time to be British. It was a year of great British naval victories which helped start Britain's dominate the oceans and signalled the beginning of an Empire.

picked the early as this was when Church choirs strarted experimenting with harmonies which of course has had a massive influence on the world of music today.

Christine Walkden chose the year when two extradordinary plant collectors know as the Tadescants changed the face of British gardening forever by travelling all over the world to bring back exotic plants forÌý the gardens of Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.

ÌýMike Dilger picked the year of - he's fascinated by the Victorian age of exploration. Mike would liked to have been around to witness the publication of Charles Darwin's revolutionary book ''.ÌýÌý

We want to know your 'best time to be British'. What period in British history fascinates you? What would you like to have witnessed? Why?

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