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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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	Dennis Gabor

	Gaelic

	Gaiety Girls

	Thomas Gainsborough

	Hugh Gaitskell

	Galahad

	Gallipoli

	John Galsworthy

	Francis Galton

	Gambia

	games

	gangway

	garden city

	David Garrick

	Garrick Club

	Order of the Garter

	gas

	Mrs Gaskell

	Gateshead

	'Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may'

	Gatwick

	Sir *Gawain and the Green Knight*

	John Gay

	*Gay News*

	gazumping

	Geffrye Museum

	Archibald Geikie

	Adeline Genée

	General Strike

	Geneva Convention

	*Genevieve*

	Geoffrey of Monmouth

	geological periods

	Geordie

	St George

	George I

	George II

	George III

	George IV

	George V

	George VI

	George Cross

	Georgian

	Ghana

	Giant's Causeway

	Edward Gibbon

	Grinling Gibbons

	Orlando Gibbons

	James Gibbs

	Gibraltar

	Guy Gibson

	John Gielgud

	Alfred Gilbert

	Humphrey Gilbert

	William Gilbert

	W.S. Gilbert

	Giles

	Eric Gill

	Gillow

	James Gillray

	John Gilpin

	Gimcrack

	gin

	The *Girl I left behind me*

	*Girl's Own Paper*

	Thomas Girtin

	'Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.'

	William Gladstone

	Glamis Castle

	Glasgow

	Glasgow airport

	Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

	Glasgow School

	Hannah Glasse

	Glastonbury

	Glaxo

	Glencoe

	Glenfiddich

	Glenfinnan Monument

	glengarry

	Globe

	Glorious First of June

	Gloucester

	Elinor Glyn

	Glyndebourne

	Owain Glyn Dwr

	gnomes of Zurich

	The *Go-Between*

	*God be in my head*

	Lady Godiva

	Gog and Magog

	Golden Miller

	The *Golden Treasury*

	*Goldilocks*

	William Golding

	Oliver Goldsmith

	gold standard

	golf

	golliwog

	The *Gondoliers*

	*Goodbye Mr Chips*

	*Goodbye to All That*

	The *Good Companions*

	Good Food Guide

	The *Good Life*

	Goodwin Sands

	Goodwood House

	The *Goon Show*

	Goossens family

	General Gordon

	Gordon Riots

	Gordonstoun

	Gothic

	Gothic Revival

	Gower Peninsula

	Gowrie conspiracy

	W.G. Grace

	*Grâce Dieu*

	Thomas Graham

	Kenneth Grahame

	Percy Grainger

	grammar school

	Grampians

	Grand National

	Grand Panjandrum

	Grand Tour

	Grand Union Canal

	Grantchester

	Grasmere

	Grassmarket

	Mons Graupius

	Robert Graves

	Thomas Gray

	*Gray's Anatomy*

	Gray's

	Great Bed of Ware

	Great Britain

	*Great Britain*

	Great Coxwell Barn

	Greater London

	Great Exhibition

	*Great Expectations*

	Great Famine

	Great Fire

	Great Glen

	*Great Harry*

	Great North Road

	Great Ormond Street

	Great Plague

	Great Stink

	Great Storm

	Great Train Robbery

	Great Universal Stores

	Great West Road

	Great Yarmouth

	Greek Revival

	Kate Greenaway

	green belt

	Graham Greene

	'Green grow the rushes O'

	Greenham Common

	Green Party

	*Greensleeves*

	Greenwich

	Greenwich Mean Time

	Greenwich meridian

	Grenada

	Joyce Grenfell

	Richard Grenville

	Thomas Gresham

	Gretna Green

	Earl Grey

	Edward Grey

	Lady Jane Grey

	greyhound racing

	John Grierson

	Joseph Grimaldi

	Jo Grimond

	Grimsby

	Atkinson Grimshaw

	grog

	Grosvenor Gallery

	groundnut scheme

	*Grove*

	Charles Groves

	Grub Street

	*Guardian*

	Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

	Guides

	Guildford

	Guildhall

	guillotine

	guinea

	Guinevere

	Guinness

	Alec Guinness

	The *Guinness Book of Records*

	Gulf War

	*Gulliver's Travels*

	gunboat diplomacy

	Gunpowder Plot

	Gurkha

	Guyana

	Guy Fawkes Night

	Guy's Hospital

	Nell Gwyn

	gymkhana

	Gypsies


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