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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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	habeas corpus

	hackney

	Haddo House

	Haddon Hall

	Hadrian's Wall

	Rider Haggard

	haggis

	Earl Haig

	Richard Hakluyt

	Haldane

	Halifax

	Henry Hall

	Hallé Orchestra

	Edmond Halley

	hallmarks

	Hallowe'en

	Hambledon Cricket Club

	Ham House

	Lady Hamilton

	*Hamlet*

	Hamley's

	hammer-beam roof

	Wally Hammond

	John Hampden

	Hampden Park

	Hampstead

	Hampton Court Palace

	Tony Hancock

	George Frideric Handel

	Handel's Largo

	A *Handful of Dust*

	hangmen

	House of Hanover

	Hansard

	Joseph Hansom

	Happy Families

	Keir Hardie

	Gilbert Harding

	*Hard Times*

	Hardwick Hall

	Thomas Hardy

	hare and hounds

	Harefield Hospital

	Harewood House

	James Hargreaves

	Harlech

	Harlequin

	Harold II

	harp

	Harrier

	'Bomber' Harris

	Rex Harrison

	Harris tweed

	Harrods

	Harrow School

	Norman Hartnell

	*Hart's Rules*

	Hamilton Harty

	Harvest Festival

	William Harvey

	Hastings

	Warren Hastings

	Hatchard's

	Hatfield House

	Anne Hathaway

	hat trick

	Lord Haw-Haw

	Hawker Siddeley

	John Hawkins

	Nicholas Hawksmoor

	John Hawkwood

	Haworth

	Mike Hawthorn

	Tubby Hayes

	*Hay Fever*

	The *Hay Wain*

	Hayward Gallery

	William Hazlitt

	Headingley

	Head of the River Race

	*Heartbreak House*

	*Heart of Darkness*

	The *Heart of Midlothian*

	*Heart of Oak*

	Edward Heath

	Ted Heath

	Heath Robinson

	Heathrow

	Oliver Heaviside

	Hebrides

	Hellfire Club

	Robert Helpmann

	Help the Aged

	Helston

	Mrs Hemans

	Hengist and Horsa

	Henley

	Henry I

	Henry II

	HenryoIII

	Henry IV

	*Henry IV*

	Henry V

	*Henry V*

	Henry VI

	*Henry VI*

	Henry VII

	Henry VIII

	*HenryoVIII*

	William Henry

	Henry Smith's Kensington Estate Charity

	George Hepplewhite

	Barbara Hepworth

	The *Herald*

	*Herald of Free Enterprise*

	herbaceous border

	A.P. Herbert

	George Herbert

	Hereford

	Hereford

	Hereward the Wake

	Hermitage Castle

	Robert Herrick

	Herschel

	Hertford

	Myra Hess

	Heveningham Hall

	Hever Castle

	Hexham

	Georgette Heyer

	Hibernian

	Hickstead

	Hidcote Manor Garden

	High Commissioner

	Highland cattle

	Highland Clearances

	Highland dress

	Highland fling

	Highland games

	Highlands

	High Sheriff

	Highway Code

	The *Highwayman*

	A *High Wind in Jamaica*

	Benny Hill

	David Octavius Hill

	Graham Hill

	Octavia Hill

	Hill House

	Nicholas Hilliard

	Hillsborough

	Hillsborough Castle

	Hindus

	The *History of Mr Polly*

	Alfred Hitchcock

	The *Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy*

	HMSO

	HMV

	Thomas Hobbes

	The *Hobbit*

	Jack Hobbs

	Hobson's choice

	*Hobson's Choice*

	hockey

	Gerard Hoffnung

	William Hogarth

	Hans Holbein

	Raphael Holinshed

	Holker Hall

	Holkham Hall

	Henry Holland

	Holland House

	Holloway

	Stanley Holloway

	Sherlock Holmes

	Gustav Holst

	Victoria Holt

	Holy Grail

	Holy Island

	Holy Loch

	Palace of Holyroodhouse

	Lord Home

	Home Guard

	homeless

	Home Office

	Home Rule

	*Home, Sweet Home*

	Hong Kong

	Honiton lace

	Honourable Artillery Company

	Robert Hooke

	Hooker

	hooligan

	Anthony Hope

	Thomas Hope

	Hopetoun House

	Gerard Manley Hopkins

	hopscotch

	Kenneth Horne

	Horniman Museum

	hornpipe

	Horse Guards

	Horse of the Year Show

	hospice movement

	hot cross bun

	*Hotspur*

	Houghton Hall

	Houghton Mill

	Household Cavalry

	*Household Words*

	Houses of Parliament

	The *House that Jack built*

	hovercraft

	Hovis

	John Howard

	Leslie Howard

	Howard League for Penal Reform

	*Howard's End*

	'How different, how very different

	Frankie Howerd

	*How Green was my Valley*

	Hoxne Treasure

	Hoylake

	HP Sauce

	George Hudson

	Henry Hudson

	Hudson's Bay Company

	Ted Hughes

	Huguenots

	Hull

	Humber

	David Hume

	Humpty Dumpty

	Hundred Years' War

	hungry forties

	Holman Hunt

	Hunterian Museum

	Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

	hunting

	Huntingdon

	The *Hunting of the Snark*

	Benjamin Huntsman

	hurling

	Hurricane

	*Hush-a-bye, baby*

	James Hutton

	Len Hutton

	Huxley

	Hyde Park

	Jack Hylton

	*Hymns Ancient and Modern*


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