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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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	NAAFI

	Namibia

	Nantgarw porcelain

	John Napier

	Napoleonic Wars

	Narnia

	Naseby

	Beau Nash

	John Nash

	Paul Nash

	national anthem

	National Army Museum

	National Art Collections Fund

	National Debt

	National Exhibition Centre

	National Film Theatre

	National Gallery

	National Gallery of Scotland

	National government

	National Health Service

	National Heritage Memorial Fund

	National Hunt

	national insurance

	nationalization

	National Library of Scotland

	National Library of Wales

	National Maritime Museum

	National Museum of Photography, Film and Television

	National Museum of Wales

	National Portrait Gallery

	National Railway Museum

	National Savings

	Royal National Theatre

	National Trust

	National Trust for Scotland

	*National Velvet*

	National Westminster Bank

	National Youth Orchestra

	National Youth Theatre

	'England is a nation of shopkeepers

	Natural History Museum

	*Nature*

	'Nature, red in tooth and claw'

	Nauru

	Anna Neagle

	Airey Neave

	The Needles

	Arthur Negus

	'Neither a borrower nor a lender be'

	Lord Nelson

	Nelson Mass

	Nelson's Column

	neoclassicism

	Neo-Nazis

	E. Nesbit

	Loch Ness

	netball

	New Age travellers

	Newcastle-upon-Tyne

	*New every morning is the love*

	New Forest

	Newgate

	New Lanark

	Newlyn

	Cardinal Newman

	Newmarket

	New Model Army

	Newport

	Newport

	*New Scientist*

	*News of the World*

	*New Statesman*

	New Street

	Isaac Newton

	New Year

	New Zealand

	*Nicholas Nickleby*

	Ben Nicholson

	Nigeria

	Florence Nightingale

	night of the long knives

	Nijinsky

	Nile

	Battle of the Nile

	999

	*Nineteen Eighty-Four*

	1922 Committee

	St Ninian

	Peter Nissen

	David Niven

	*NME*

	'the noblest prospect

	Noddy

	*Noises Off*

	*Non Angli sed Angeli*

	Nonconformists

	Nonjurors

	Nonsuch Palace

	The Nore

	Norfolk Broads

	House of Normandy

	Normans

	Northallerton

	Northampton

	*Northanger Abbey*

	Lord Northcliffe

	Northern Ballet Theatre

	The *Northern Echo*

	Northern Ireland

	Northern Sinfonia

	North Sea oil and gas

	Northumbria

	Northwest Passage

	Norton

	Norwich

	Norwich City

	Nostell Priory

	*Nostromo*

	*Not the Nine O'Clock News*

	Nottingham

	Nottingham Forest

	Notting Hill

	Notts County

	Ivor Novello

	NSPCC

	Lord Nuffield

	nursery rhymes

	Nymans

	Oaks

	oast house

	Captain Oates

	Oban

	Prince Obolensky

	obscenity

	The *Observer*

	*O come, all ye faithful*

	Daniel O'Connell

	*Odd Man Out*

	*Ode on a Grecian Urn*

	*Ode to a Nightingale*

	*Ode to the West Wind*

	Offa's Dyke

	*O for the Wings of a Dove*

	Ogham

	*O God, our help in ages past*

	*Oh What a Lovely War*

	Oil Crisis

	Old Bailey

	Old Codgers

	Old Contemptibles

	Old Hundredth

	*Old King Cole*

	*Old Moore's Almanack*

	*Old Mother Hubbard*

	Old Mother Riley

	Old Parr

	*Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats*

	Old Trafford

	Old Vic

	*Oliver Twist*

	Laurence Olivier

	Olympia

	Olympic Games

	Omar Khayyám

	Ombudsman

	Omega Workshops

	*Ondine*

	*Onward, Christian Soldiers*

	The Open

	open-field system

	Open University

	Opera North

	Ophelia

	Peter and Iona Opie

	Opium Wars

	Opposition

	*opus anglicanum*

	Orange

	*Oranges and Lemons*

	Baroness Orczy

	Ordnance Survey

	Orkneys

	Orlando the Marmalade Cat

	Joe Orton

	George Orwell

	John Osborne

	Osborne House

	Ossian

	Osterley Park

	*Othello*

	The Oval

	Ovaltine

	'over here'

	Overlord embroidery

	Daniel Owen

	Robert Owen

	Wilfred Owen

	The *Owl and the Pussy-Cat*

	Oxbridge

	Oxfam

	Oxford

	Oxford accent

	The *Oxford Book of English Verse*

	*Oxford English Dictionary*

	Oxford Movement

	Oxford Street

	Oxford University Press

	Oxo


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