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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
21: *[[George Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Can...
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57: *[[Thomas Cavendish]], (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.
231: *[[Walter Raleigh]], (1554?-1618), English explorer
274: ...George Vancouver]], (1757-1798), [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Royal Navy]] [[captain]]; explored the [[Paci... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
5: ...o early [[6th century]], to have been of [[Romano-British]] origin, and to have fought against the [[pagan]...
100: The [[1970s]] British television series, ''[[Arthur of the Britons]]'',...
116: * [[Mythical British Kings]]
120: ...ed after Arthur with a hope that he would restore English greatness
135: ...britannia.com/history/timelines.html Timelines of British history on Britannia.com] - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
10: ...h century]]. The [[Inclosure]] movement and the [[British Agricultural Revolution]] made food production mo...
38: ... of travels made by French engineers who observed British methods on study tours.
48: ...on was not wholly smooth. For example, a group of English workers known as [[Luddite]]s formed to protest a...
65: In the early 18th century, British [[textile]] [[manufacture]] was based on [[wool]]...
67: ...hat manufactured cotton goods became the dominant British export by the early decades of the 19th century. ... - Steel (28384 bytes)
66: ...hem outside the Weald failed. The superiority of English cannons over Spanish ones has been credited as on...
68: ...ntinent. One difference he observed was that the English ore contained some calcareous material, and soon ...
80: ...ced using this method became a major metal in the English midlands' emerging [[toy industry]]. The combinat...
89: ...[[1867]], the [[Germany|German]]-[[United Kingdom|British]] engineer [[William Siemens]] introduced an impr... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
8: ... with Catholic models of church organization, the English Reformation had brought the church under control ...
16: ... Church," and he outlines a ''via media'' for the English church that, rather than being the absence of doc...
20: ...lievers in biblical supremacy, the presence of an English language Bible was paramount. The Geneva Bible, ...
24: ...le]] were a major factor in the outbreak of the [[English Civil War]]. Puritans certainly agitated against...
26: ...were more often referred to as [[Dissenters]]. [[English Dissenters]] were barred from any profession that... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
47: ...ayed on the pipes, tunes written by pipers in the British Army during this time, or, increasingly, tunes co...
95: *Cornish pipes : extinct English bagpipe undergoing revival
99: *Lancashire Great-pipe : another extinct English bagpipe undergoing revival
101: ...f the Irish bagpipe, played by the Scots and N.E. English as well! - November 4 (10686 bytes)
21: * [[1922]] - In [[Egypt]], [[United Kingdom|British]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men fin...
83: *[[1918]] - [[Wilfred Owen]], English poet
94: *[[2000]] - [[Ian Sneddon]], British mathematician
95: *[[2003]] - [[Richard Wollheim]], British philosopher - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
30: *[[George Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor
35: ... Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: ...bbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
63: ...ard Adams (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor
87: *[[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet
95: *[[Richard Adeney|Adeney, Richard]], British flautist - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
14: *[[Arthur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
20: ...d Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP
21: ...[Henry Ainsworth|Ainsworth, Henry]], (1571-1622), English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
11: ...and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
17: ...she was third in the [[Order of succession to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind ...
29: ...monwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]] and [[British Empire|Empire]], pledging to devote her life to t...
55: ...retreat in Kenya. Elizabeth's [[Coronation of the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster ... - Performance (3170 bytes)
24: ...re '''[[street]] [[musician]]s''' (or, in British English, '''buskers'''), often the public consists of peo... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...] – [[17 November]] [[1558]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Ireland...
15: ...alian]], as well as her native [[English language|English]]. Other studies included [[Greek language|Greek...
19: ...olic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope were abolished,...
21: ...f Henry VIII, although she was illegitimate under English law.
44: ... Commons]] petitioned her to consider marrying an Englishman, fearing that England would be relegated to a ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
17: ... by grief over the Scots' humiliating loss to the English at the [[Battle of Solway Moss]]. In [[Falkland P...
33: ...on pounds and many lives. In May of [[1544]], the English [[Earl of Hertford]] (later created [[Duke of Som...
36: ...Marie moved her daughter to Dumbarton Castle. The English left a trail of devastation behind once more and ...
44: ...I had excluded the Stuarts from succeeding to the English throne. Mary's troubles were still further increa...
53: ... Maitland of Lethington]] as an ambassador to the English court to put the case for Mary as a potential hei... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ... a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eigh...
13: [[Virginia]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and after...
16: ...[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...inued to reign until her death. Anne was the last British monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succe...
10: ... Parliament]] refused to accept the choice of the English Parliament, various coercive tactics (such as cri...
12: ...Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], who led the English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
19: ...n to Roman Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's secon...
38: ...s army in Europe and refused to impose taxes. The English Parliament—fearing that an independent Scot... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
22: ... and the Dutch army landed on [[5 November]]. The English people's confidence in James stood so low that th...
28: ...nd]] — which was much more divided than the English Parliament — finally declared that James wa...
31: ...of the most important constitutional documents in English history, the [[Bill of Rights 1689|Bill of Rights...
44: ... was only nominal, and had been asserted by every English King since [[Edward III of England|Edward III]], ...
51: |width="40%" align="center"|'''[[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]]'''<br>''with [[Willia... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...three years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of th...
9: ...ictoria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] was...
14: ...d however, she was schooled in [[English language|English]]. She eventually learned to speak [[Italian lang...
20: ...ily surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding name, ''Windsor''. (In the early [[1960s...
25: ...est Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
1: :Mary Robinson ''is also the name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poet)]]''
43: ...n under [[Garret FitzGerald]] had signed with the British Government of [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Robinson arg...
65: ... Buckingham Palace. She welcomed visits by senior British royals, most notably the [[Prince of Wales]] to h... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...] [[1925]]) is a [[Politics of the United Kingdom|British stateswoman]] and was the [[Prime Minister of the...
38: ...ass degree and worked as a research chemist for [[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Lyo...
43: ... the [[1959]] election and took her seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, h...
66: ...be the dominant political philosophy in the major English-speaking nations for the era.
71: ...reland) by his proper name, insisting on using an English variation, "Cardinal Fee".
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