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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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	ICA

	Ice Age

	ICI

	Icknield Way

	Ickworth

	*I, Claudius*

	Ideal Home Exhibition

	*Idylls of the King*

	If

	Ightham Mote

	'ignorance is bliss'

	Ilkley

	*Illustrated London News*

	*I'm All Right Jack*

	immigration

	Imperial College of Science and Technology

	Imperial War Museum

	imperial weights and measures

	The *Importance of Being Earnest*

	income tax

	The *Independent*

	India

	Indian Mutiny

	Industrial Revolution

	infant mortality

	infant prodigies

	The *Ingoldsby Legends*

	*In Memoriam*

	Innerpeffray

	Inns of Court

	'In the name of God, go!'

	*Intimations of Immortality*

	Inveraray

	Inverewe

	Inverness

	*In Which We Serve*

	Iona

	Ipswich

	IRA

	Iraq

	Ireland

	John Ireland

	The Irish

	Iron Age

	iron and steel

	Ironbridge

	iron curtain

	Henry Irving

	Christopher Isherwood

	Isis

	Isle of Man

	Alec Issigonis

	*ITMA*

	ITN

	*It's a long way to Tipperary*

	*Ivanhoe*

	*Jack and Jill*

	*Jack and the Beanstalk*

	jacks

	*Jack the Giant Killer*

	Jack the Ripper

	Jacobean

	Jacobite

	Jaguar

	Jamaica

	Henry James

	James I

	James I and VI

	James II

	James II

	James III

	James IV

	James V

	James VIII & III

	Jameson Raid

	jam tomorrow

	Jane

	*Jane Eyre*

	Jane Seymour

	*Jane's Fighting Ships*

	japanning

	Jardine Matheson

	Jarlshof

	Jarrow

	Jedburgh

	Judge Jeffreys

	Gertrude Jekyll

	Jekyll and Hyde

	War of Jenkins' Ear

	Edward Jenner

	jersey

	*Jerusalem*

	*Jewel in the Crown*

	*Jewish Chronicle*

	Jews

	jig

	Jimmy's

	jingoism

	Jock

	Jockey Club

	jodhpurs

	Jodrell Bank

	John

	Augustus John

	Gwen John

	John Bull

	John Lewis Partnership

	John Moores Exhibition

	John Murray

	John of Gaunt

	John o'Groats

	Amy Johnson

	Dr Johnson

	Brian Johnston

	Jolly Roger

	Inigo Jones

	Thomas Jones

	Ben Jonson

	Jorrocks

	James Joule

	The *Journal*

	*Journey of the Magi*

	*Journey's End*

	jubilees

	*Julius Caesar*

	The *Jungle Book*

	Junius

	junket

	jury system

	*Just So Stories*

	Jutes

	Battle of Jutland

	Boris Karloff

	Fred Karno

	Loch Katrine

	John Kay

	Edmund Kean

	John Keats

	John Keble

	kedgeree

	Kedleston Hall

	Kelmscott Press

	kelpie

	Kelso

	Fanny Kemble

	Kenilworth Castle

	Kennel Club

	Kenneth I

	Kensington Gardens

	Kensington Palace

	William Kent

	Kent's Cavern

	'Kent, sir – everybody knows Kent

	Kenwood House

	Kenya

	Kew Gardens

	John Maynard Keynes

	khaki

	Captain Kidd

	Kidderminster

	*Kidnapped*

	Pass of Killiecrankie

	Kilpeck

	Francis Kilvert

	*Kim*

	*Kind Hearts and Coronets*

	King Edward's Schools

	*King John*

	*King Lear*

	King's Beasts

	King's College, London

	King's Cross

	King's evil

	Charles Kingsley

	King's Lynn

	*King Solomon's Mines*

	King's pattern

	King's Road

	King's Schools

	king's

	Kingston

	Kingston Brooch

	Kingston Lacy

	King's Troop

	Rudyard Kipling

	kipper

	*Kipps*

	Kiribati

	Kirkwall

	Kit-Cat Club

	Lord Kitchener

	Kit Kat

	Godfrey Kneller

	Laura Knight

	Knightsbridge safe deposit boxes

	Knightshayes Court

	Knole

	knot

	John Knox

	Robin Knox-Johnston

	Arthur Koestler

	Kohinoor

	Alexander Korda

	Korean War

	Hans Krebs

	*Kubla Khan*

	Kuwait


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