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- During the Bronze Age people lived in roundhouses and buried their dead in tombs called round barrows.
- The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded annually for the best fiction novel written by an author from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe. It has been awarded since 1968.
- Between 1853 and 1913, as many as 13 million British citizens left the country.
- The main Olympic site for the 2012 Games was in Stratford, East London.
- Brief Encounter (1945) was directed by David Lean.
- Oliver Cromwell was the leader of the English republic.
- In the 2011 Census, 59% of people identified themselves as Christian. Much smaller proportions identified themselves as Muslim (4.8%), Hindu (1.5%), Sikh (0.8%), Jewish or Buddhist (both less than 0.5%).
- People in the UK have to pay tax on their income, which includes: wages from paid employment, profits from self-employment, taxable benefits, pensions and income from property, savings and dividends.
- There are three devolved administrations in the UK, these include: the Welsh government, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
- Drivers can use their driving licence until they are 70 years old. After that, the licence is valid for three years at a time.
- Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer from Grantham in Lincolnshire.
- Jenson Button is a famous Formula 1 driver.
- In 1284 King Edward I of England introduced the Statute of Rhuddlan, which annexed Wales to the Crown of England.
- The Brexit referendum was held on 23 June 2016.
- In 1815, the French Wars ended with the defeat of the Emperor Napoleon by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellington was known as the Iron Duke and later became Prime Minister.
- In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic.
- There are several British overseas territories in other parts of the world, such as St Helena and the Falkland Islands. They are also linked to the UK but are not part of it.
- Fleming won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of the penicillin.
- The 1960s was a time of technological progress, when Britain and France developed the world’s only supersonic commercial airliner, Concorde.
- Recent British actors to have won Oscars include
- Colin Firth
- Sir Antony Hopkins
- Dame Judi Dench
- Kate Winslet
- Tilda Swinton.
- In 1485, Henry Tudor, the leader of the House of Lancaster, became King Henry VII after defeating King Richard III of the House of York at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
- The Prime Minister appoints about 20 senior MPs to become ministers in charge of departments.
- Mary Peters was a talented athlete who won an Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon in 1972.
- Emmeline Pankhurst set up the women’s Franchise League in 1889, which fought to get the vote in local elections for married women.
- The First World War lasted four years (1914 – 1918).
- Henry VII was the leader of the House of Lancaster.
- The Houses of Parliament and St Pancras Station were built in the 19th century, as were the town halls in cities such as Manchester and Sheffield.
- There are now more than 61,000 volunteers helping to keep the National Trust running.
- The population of the UK in 1851 was 20 million people.
- ‘A rose by any other name’ is a line from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.
- Vaisakhi (also spelled Baisakhi) is a Sikh festival which celebrates the founding of the Sikh community known as the Khalsa.
- James Watt’s work on steam power, helped the progress of the Industrial Revolution.
- There are two ways to arrange a visit to the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont. You can either contact the Education Service (details are on the Northern Ireland Assembly website at http://www.niassembly.gov.uk) or contact an MLA.
- In 1932 Scotsman John Logie Baird made the first television broadcast between London and Glasgow.
- Between 1870 and 1914, around 120,000 Russian and Polish Jews came to Britain to escape persecution.
- The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf tells of its hero’s battles against monsters and is still translated into modern English.
- The 39 Steps (1935) was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- In 1948, Aneurin (Nye) Bevan, the Minister for Health, led the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS), which guaranteed a minimum standard of health care for all, free at the point of use.
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