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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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	Labour Party

	Lacock Abbey

	Ladbroke

	The *Lady*

	Ladybird

	*Lady Chatterley's Lover*

	Lady Day

	The *Lady of the Lake*

	The *Lady of Shalott*

	The *Lady's Not for Burning*

	The *Lady Vanishes*

	Lake District

	Lake Poets

	Jim Laker

	Lallans

	Charles Lamb

	Constant Lambert

	Daniel Lambert

	Lambeth Conference

	Lambeth Palace

	Lambeth Walk

	Lancashire hotpot

	Lancaster

	Lancaster

	House of Lancaster

	Osbert Lancaster

	Lancaster House

	Lancelot

	*Lancet*

	land girls

	Landmark Trust

	*Land of my Fathers*

	landscape gardening

	Edwin Landseer

	Land's End

	Lanfranc

	Stephen Langton

	Lillie Langtry

	Lanhydrock House

	lardy cake

	Largs

	The *Lark Ascending*

	Philip Larkin

	Harold Larwood

	*Lass of Richmond Hill*

	Last Post

	William Laud

	Harry Lauder

	The *Laughing Cavalier*

	Charles Laughton

	Laura Ashley

	Stan Laurel

	The *Lavender Hill Mob*

	Lavenham

	laver bread

	law

	Bonar Law

	Law Courts

	'the law is a ass

	Law Lords

	D.H. Lawrence

	Gertrude Lawrence

	T.E. Lawrence

	Thomas Lawrence

	Austen Henry Layard

	The *Lay of the Last Minstrel*

	*Lays of Ancient Rome*

	Bernard Leach

	Leader of the House of Commons

	League Against Cruel Sports

	League of Nations

	Leakey family

	Royal Leamington Spa

	David Lean

	Leander

	Edward Lear

	F.R. Leavis

	Leeds

	Leeds Castle

	Leeds International Piano Competition

	Leeds pottery

	Leeds United

	Leicester

	Earl of Leicester

	Vivien Leigh

	Lord Leighton

	Peter Lely

	Dan Leno

	Leonardo Cartoon

	Lerwick

	Lesotho

	'Lest we forget'

	*Letter from America*

	Leuchars

	Levellers

	Loch Leven

	Levens Hall

	Lord Leverhulme

	Lewes

	C.S. Lewis

	John Frederick Lewis

	Lewis with Harris

	ley lines

	Liberal Party

	Liberal Democratic Party

	Liberty

	Liberty's

	libraries

	Libyan embassy siege

	Lichfield

	Alvar Lidell

	life expectancy

	life peers

	The *Light of the World*

	*Lili Marlene*

	*Lilliburlero*

	limerick

	Lime Street

	limey

	limited liability

	Lincoln

	Lindisfarne

	Lindisfarne Gospels

	Lindow man

	Linear B

	Linlithgow

	Lion and unicorn

	Lions

	liquorice allsorts

	listed buildings

	The *Listener*

	*Listen with Mother*

	Joseph Lister

	*Little Dorritt*

	Little Englanders

	*Little Jack Horner*

	*Little Lord Fauntleroy*

	Little Moreton Hall

	Joan Littlewood

	Liverpool

	Liverpool

	Lord Liverpool

	Liverpool and Manchester railway

	Liverpool Street

	David Livingstone

	Lizard

	Llandaff

	Llandrindod Wells

	Llandudno

	Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

	Llangollen

	Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

	Llywelyn ab Iorwerth

	Marie Lloyd

	David Lloyd George

	Lloyds

	*Lloyd's List*

	Lloyd's of London

	*Lloyd's Register*

	Lochinvar

	John Locke

	Lollards

	Lombard Street

	Loch Lomond

	London

	London Bridge

	*London Bridge is falling down*

	London County Council

	Londonderry

	Londonderry Air

	*London Gazette*

	London Library

	London Palladium

	London Philharmonic

	*London Review of Books*

	London School of Economics

	London Symphonies

	London Symphony Orchestra

	London Transport

	London University

	London Zoo

	longbow

	Henry Longhurst

	Longleat House

	Long Meg and her daughters

	Long Melford

	Long Parliament

	Lonrho

	Lonsdale Belt

	*Look Back in Anger*

	Lord Advocate

	Lord Chamberlain

	Lord Chancellor

	Lord Chief Justice

	*Lord Jim*

	Lord Lieutenant

	Lord Mayor

	Lord Mayor's Banquet

	Lord Mayor's Show

	*Lord of the Flies*

	The *Lord of the Rings*

	Lord President of the Council

	Lord Privy Seal

	Lord's

	House of Lords

	Lord's Day Observance Society

	The *Lord's my Shepherd*

	Lords Spiritual

	Loretto

	*Lorna Doone*

	Joe Loss

	The *Lost Chord*

	gay Lothario

	lottery

	Mr and Mrs Loudon

	Richard Lovelace

	*Love on the Dole*

	*Love's Labours's Lost*

	'love that dare not speak its name'

	David Low

	Lowlands

	L.S. Lowry

	Loyalists

	£.s.d.

	Luck of Edenhall

	*Lucky Jim*

	Luddites

	Ludlow

	Lullingstone Roman Villa

	Lundy

	*Lusitania*

	Luton Hoo

	Edwin Lutyens

	Elizabeth Lutyens

	*Lycidas*

	Charles Lyell

	Lyme Regis

	Lyonesse

	Lyons' teashops

	*Lyrical Ballads*


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