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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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	Vita Sackville-West

	Sadler's Wells

	safari parks

	Sainsbury's

	The Saint

	St Albans

	St Andrews

	St Asaph

	St Bartholomew the Great

	St Bride's

	St Clement Danes

	St David's

	St Dunstan's

	St George's Chapel

	St George's Hospital

	St Giles' Cathedral

	St Helena

	St Ives

	St James's Palace

	St James's Park

	*Saint Joan*

	St John Ambulance Brigade

	St Katharine's Dock

	St Kilda

	St Kitts-Nevis

	St Leger

	St Lucia

	St Margaret's Westminster

	St Martin-in-the-Fields

	St Michael's Mount

	St Pancras

	St Paul's Cathedral

	St Paul's School

	St Thomas's Hospital

	St Vincent and the Grenadines

	Saki

	Salford

	Salic Law

	Salisbury

	Lord Salisbury

	Salisbury Plain

	*Sally in our Alley*

	Sally Lunn

	Saltaire

	Saltram House

	Salvation Army

	Samaritans

	Sam Browne

	*Samson Agonistes*

	Samuel French

	Paul Sandby

	Sandhurst

	Sandown Park

	Sandringham

	sandwich

	Sandwich

	Frederick Sanger

	Sarawak

	John Singer Sargent

	Malcolm Sargent

	SAS

	sash windows

	Sassenach

	Siegfried Sassoon

	*Saturday Night and Sunday Morning*

	'savaged by a dead sheep'

	Save the Children

	Savill Garden

	savings

	Savoy Hotel

	Savoy operas

	Savoy Theatre

	House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha

	Saxons

	Dorothy Sayers

	Scapa Flow

	The *Scapegoat*

	Scarborough

	The *Scarlet Pimpernel*

	The *School for Scandal*

	Science Museum

	Scilly Isles

	scone

	Scone

	*Scoop*

	Scotch

	Scotch broth

	Scotch egg

	Scotland

	*Scotland the brave*

	New Scotland Yard

	Scotney Castle

	Scots

	The *Scotsman*

	*Scots, wha hae*

	Captain Scott

	George Gilbert Scott

	Giles Gilbert Scott

	Paul Scott

	Peter Scott

	Ronnie Scott

	Sheila Scott

	Walter Scott

	Scottish Ballet

	Scottish baronial

	Scottish Colourists

	Scottish FA Cup

	Scottish League

	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

	Scottish National Portrait Gallery

	Scottish Opera

	Scottish Record Office

	Scouse

	Scouts

	The *Screwtape Letters*

	scrumpy

	SDLP

	SDP

	Mary Seacole

	*Sea Fever*

	seaside piers

	seaside postcards

	SEATO

	Seaton Delaval Hall

	Harry Secombe

	The *Second Mrs Tanqueray*

	Secretary of State

	The *Secret Garden*

	Segontium

	Henry Segrave

	Selfridges

	Peter Sellers

	*Sense and Sensibility*

	setters

	Act of Settlement

	seven ages of man

	Seven Years' War

	Severn

	Seychelles

	Sezincote

	S4C

	Ernest Shackleton

	Lord Shaftesbury

	Shaftesbury Avenue

	William Shakespeare

	shandy

	Shangri-La

	Bill Shankly

	George Bernard Shaw

	Norman Shaw

	*She*

	sheep

	sheepdogs

	Sheffield

	Sheffield Park Garden

	Sheffield plate

	Sheffield United

	Sheffield Wednesday

	Shell

	Mary Shelley

	Percy Bysshe Shelley

	Shelter

	E.H. Shepard

	shepherd's pie

	Jack Sheppard

	Thomas Sheraton

	Shergar

	Richard Brinsley Sheridan

	Charles Scott Sherrington

	sherry

	Sherwood Forest

	*She Stoops to Conquer*

	Shetlands

	shinty

	Manny Shinwell

	ship money

	ship of the line

	shipping forecast

	Mother Shipton

	Shires

	shooting

	shortbread

	Shorthorn

	Henry Shrapnel

	Shrewsbury

	A *Shropshire Lad*

	Shrove Tuesday

	Shugborough

	Nevil Shute

	Jan Siberechts

	Walter Sickert

	Mrs Siddons

	Philip Sidney

	Sidney Street siege

	Siegfried line

	William Siemens

	Sierra Leone

	Sikhs

	Silbury Hill

	Silchester

	Silverstone

	Lambert Simnel

	James Simpson

	*Sindbad the Sailor*

	Singapore

	*Sing a song of sixpence*

	The *Singing Detective*

	Sinn Fein

	siren suit

	*Sir Patrick Spens*

	Sissinghurst Castle

	Sitwell family

	Six Counties

	sixes and sevens

	Six Nations tournament

	Skara Brae

	Skegness is so bracing

	skinhead

	Skye

	Skye Boat Song

	Felix Slade

	slave trade

	General Slim

	Slimbridge

	slipware

	Hans Sloane

	slogan


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