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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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	John Smeaton

	Samuel Smiles

	Robert Smirke

	Adam Smith

	F.E. Smith

	John Smith

	John Smith

	Matthew Smith

	Stevie Smith

	Sydney Smith

	W.H. Smith

	William Smith

	Smithfield Market

	SmithKline Beecham

	smog

	Tobias Smollett

	Robert Smythson

	Snettisham

	snooker

	C.P. Snow

	Snowdon

	The *Snow Queen*

	*Snow White*

	SNP

	John Soane

	Society of Antiquaries

	Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

	soda bread

	Frederick Soddy

	Soho

	solar topee

	Solheim Cup

	solicitor

	Simeon Solomon

	Solomon Islands

	Georg Solti

	Somerset House

	Michael Somes

	Battles of the Somme

	*Songs of Innocence*

	*Songs of Innocence and Experience*

	The *Sonnets*

	*Sons and Lovers*

	Sooty

	Donald Soper

	Tommy Sopwith

	Sotheby's

	South Africa

	Southampton

	South Bank

	Southend

	Robert Southey

	South Georgia

	South Sea Bubble

	South Stack

	Southwark

	Southwell

	sovereign

	spaniels

	War of the Spanish Succession

	Speaker

	Speakers' Corner

	*Spectator*

	John Speed

	John Hanning Speke

	Speke Hall

	Basil Spence

	Stanley Spencer

	Stephen Spender

	Edmund Spenser

	Spitalfields

	Spitfire

	Spithead

	Spode pottery and porcelain

	William Spooner

	The *Sporting Life*

	Sports Council

	spotted dick

	Constance Spry

	Spy

	The *Spy Who Came in from the Cold*

	squash

	squashed flies

	Sri Lanka

	Staffa

	Stafford

	Staffordshire pottery

	*Stalky & Co*

	Evening *Standard*

	standard gauge

	standing stones

	Myles Standish

	Charles Villiers Stanford

	Henry Morton Stanley

	Stanley Gibbons

	Stannaries

	Stansted

	Daily Star

	Star and Garter

	Star Chamber

	Freya Stark

	stately homes

	State Opening of Parliament

	state school

	steak and kidney pudding

	steam

	Richard Steele

	steeplechase

	Jock Stein

	Sten gun

	Stephen

	George Stephenson

	Robert Stephenson

	*Steptoe and Son*

	sterling

	Laurence Sterne

	Robert Louis Stevenson

	Stilton

	Stirling

	James Stirling

	Robert Stirling

	Stirling Bridge

	Stock Exchange

	Stockton and Darlington railway

	Stoke Mandeville

	Stoke-on-Trent

	Stokesay Castle

	Stone Age

	Stonehenge

	Marie Stopes

	Stornoway

	Paul Storr

	Stourhead

	John Stow

	Stowe

	Lytton Strachey

	Earl of Strafford

	*Strand Magazine*

	*Strange Meeting*

	Strangeways

	Strata Florida Abbey

	Stratfield Saye

	Stratford-upon-Avon

	Strawberry Hill

	Noel Streatfeild

	G.E. Street

	strikes

	Patience Strong

	House of Stuart

	Charles Edward Stuart

	James Stuart

	George Stubbs

	Studley Royal

	Styal

	Sudan

	Sudbury Hall

	Suez Canal

	Suez Crisis

	suffragettes

	Sulgrave Manor

	Arthur Sullivan

	'Sumer is icumen in

	summer pudding

	Summer Time

	The *Sun*

	Sun Alliance

	Sunday

	*Sunday Mirror*

	The *Sunday Post*

	Sunday schools

	The *Sunday Times*

	Sunderland

	Sunderland

	Sunningdale

	Act of Supremacy

	Rosemary Sutcliff

	Herbert Sutcliffe

	Graham Sutherland

	Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

	Joseph Swan

	Swan of Avon

	Swansea

	Swansea porcelain

	swan-upping

	Swaziland

	Sweeney Todd

	Sweetheart Abbey

	sweets

	Jonathan Swift

	swimming the Channel

	Algernon Swinburne

	St Swithin's Day

	sword dance

	syllabub

	*Symphonic Variations*

	Symphony Hall

	Synod of Whitby

	Dr Syntax

	Syon House


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