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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN

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The site contains more than 5000 entries from Bamber Gascoigne's Encyclopedia of Britain, originally published by Macmillan in 1993.

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	Richard Dadd

	*Dad's Army*

	Roald Dahl

	Daimler

	Dalmeny House

	Dalriada

	Hugh Dalton

	John Dalton

	Dam Busters

	Dan Dare

	*Dandy*

	Danegeld

	Danes

	Thomas Daniell

	Dan-yr-Ogof

	Darby and Joan

	*Darkness at Noon*

	Grace Darling

	Dartington

	Dartmoor

	Dartmouth

	darts

	Charles Darwin

	Erasmus Darwin

	Elizabeth David

	St David

	David II

	*David Copperfield*

	Humphry Davy

	C. Day-Lewis

	D-day

	*Dead March in Saul*

	dead parrot sketch

	Forest of Dean

	*Death on the Rock*

	*Debrett's*

	*Decline and Fall*

	*Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*

	Dedham Vale

	John Dee

	Dee

	deer

	deerstalker

	Daniel Defoe

	Geoffrey de Havilland

	Walter de la Mare

	New Delhi

	Frederick Delius

	Alfred Deller

	William De Morgan

	Depression

	*De Profundis*

	Deptford

	Thomas De Quincey

	Derby

	Lord Derby

	The Derby

	Derby County

	Derby porcelain

	*Desert Island Discs*

	Desert Orchid

	desert rats

	Design Centre

	Dettingen

	Ninette de Valois

	Devil's Bridge

	devolution

	Devonshire Hunting Tapestries

	James Dewar

	Peter de Wint

	DFC

	The *Diary of a Country Parson*

	The *Diary of a Nobody*

	Dick Barton

	Charles Dickens

	The *Dictionary of National Biography*

	*Dido and Aeneas*

	Charles Dilke

	Richard Dimbleby

	dinner

	Paul Dirac

	Dirleton

	Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells

	dispatch box

	Benjamin Disraeli

	Dissenters

	Dissolution of the Monasteries

	district

	divine right of kings

	divorce

	Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived

	*Dixon of Dock Green*

	Dixons

	DNA

	D-notice

	Docklands

	Doc Martens

	*Doctor Faustus*

	*Dr Finlay's Casebook*

	*Doctor Foster went to Gloucester*

	*Dr Who*

	Dogger Bank

	Doggett's Coat and Badge

	Dolaucothi

	Anton Dolin

	Dr Dolittle

	Domesday Book

	Dominica

	dominion status

	Doncaster

	The *Dong with a Luminous Nose*

	*Don Juan*

	John Donne

	Steve Donoghue

	*Do not go gentle into that good night*

	Dorchester

	Dorchester

	double-decker

	Double Gloucester

	Douglas

	Lord Alfred Douglas

	Doulton pottery and porcelain

	Doune Castle

	Dove Cottage

	Dover

	Lord Dowding

	John Dowland

	*Down and Out in Paris and London*

	*Down at the Old Bull and Bush*

	Downing Street

	Downing Street Declaration

	Downs

	Downside School

	*Down Your Way*

	Richard D'Oyly Carte

	*Dracula*

	Francis Drake

	Drambuie

	HMS *Dreadnought*

	The *Dream of Gerontius*

	'Dropping the Pilot'

	druids

	Drum Castle

	Drumlanrig Castle

	Drury Lane

	Dryburgh Abbey

	John Dryden

	DSC

	DSO

	The *Duchess of Malfi*

	ducking stool

	Dudley

	Dulwich College

	Dulwich Picture Gallery

	Daphne du Maurier

	George du Maurier

	dumb-waiter

	dum-dum

	Dumfries

	Dunadd

	William Dunbar

	Dunblane

	Duncan I

	The *Dunciad*

	Dundee

	Dundee cake

	Dundrennan Abbey

	Dunfermline

	Dunkeld

	Dunkirk

	John Dunlop

	Dunmow Flitch

	Dunnet Head

	Dunnottar Castle

	John Duns

	St Dunstan

	Dunster Castle

	Dunvegan Castle

	Jacqueline Du Pré

	Durham

	Bishop of Durham

	Durham Miners' Gala

	Lawrence Durrell

	Dutch elm disease

	Joseph Duveen

	Duxford

	Anthony van Dyck

	*D'ye ken John Peel?*

	J.B. Dykes


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