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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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	The *Tablet*

	table tennis

	tabloid press

	Taffy

	*Take It From Here*

	Fox Talbot

	A *Tale of Two Cities*

	Thomas Tallis

	Tamar

	*Tamburlaine the Great*

	The *Taming of the Shrew*

	*Tam o' Shanter*

	Tanganyika

	tanks

	Tantallon Castle

	Tanzania

	*Tarka the Otter*

	Tarmac

	tartan

	Tate & Lyle

	Tate Gallery

	*Tatler*

	Tattersalls

	Taunton

	R.H. Tawney

	Tay

	A.J.P. Taylor

	Taylor Report

	tea

	Edward Teach

	teds

	Tees

	*Telegraph*

	television

	Thomas Telford

	temperature

	The *Tempest*

	Temple Bar

	Tenby

	John Tenniel

	tennis

	Lord Tennyson

	*1066 and all that*

	terriers

	Territorial Army

	Ellen Terry

	Tesco

	*Tess of the d'Urbervilles*

	Test Acts

	Test matches

	*Test Match Special*

	test-tube babies

	William Makepeace Thackeray

	Thames

	Thames Rowing Club

	Isle of Thanet

	thatch

	Margaret Thatcher

	*That Was The Week That Was*

	Theatre Museum

	*Things to Come*

	thin red line

	The *Third Man*

	Thirlestane Castle

	*Thirty days hath September*

	Thirty-nine Articles

	The *Thirty-Nine Steps*

	thirty-year rule

	*This little pig went to market*

	Order of the Thistle

	Dylan Thomas

	Thomas, the Tank Engine

	J.J. Thomson

	William Thomson

	Sybil Thorndike

	thoroughbred

	1,000 Guineas

	Threadneedle Street

	*Three blind mice*

	Three Choirs Festival

	three-day event

	*Three Men in a Boat*

	three Rs

	*Through the Looking-Glass*

	*Thunderbirds*

	Tichborne Dole

	Tiger Moth

	Jean Tijou

	*Till Death Us Do Part*

	Tiller Girls

	Vesta Tilley

	timber-frame

	The *Time Machine*

	The *Times*

	*Timon of Athens*

	*Tinker, Tailor*

	Tintagel

	Tintern Abbey

	Michael Tippett

	Tippoo's Tiger

	James Tissot

	*Titanic*

	*Titus Andronicus*

	*TLS*

	toad-in-the-hole

	*To a Skylark*

	Toby jug

	Toc H

	J.R.R. Tolkien

	Tolpuddle Martyrs

	tomato ketchup

	*Tom Bowling*

	*Tom Brown's Schooldays*

	*Tom Jones*

	Tommy Atkins

	Thomas Tompion

	Tom Thumb

	Tonga

	tonic

	Tories and Whigs

	Torquay

	*Torrey Canyon*

	tossing the caber

	Tote

	*To the Lighthouse*

	Tottenham Hotspur

	Tower Bridge

	Tower Hill

	Tower of London

	town crier

	Francis Towne

	Turnip Townshend

	Townswomen's Guilds

	Arnold Toynbee

	toy theatre

	John Tradescant

	trade unions

	Trafalgar

	Trafalgar Square

	Transjordan

	Traquair House

	Travellers' Club

	Ben Travers

	Traverse

	*Treasure Island*

	treasure-trove

	*Trelawny of the 'Wells'*

	Trelissick

	Trent

	Trent Bridge

	Tresco

	G.M. Trevelyan

	Richard Trevithick

	Trewithen

	trews

	Trial of the Pyx

	Trident

	trifle

	*Trilby*

	Tommy Trinder

	Trinidad and Tobago

	Trinity House

	triple crown

	Tristan and Iseult

	Tristan da Cunha

	*Tristram Shandy*

	Triumph

	*Troilus and Cressida*

	*Troilus and Criseyde*

	Anthony Trollope

	Trooping the Colour

	The Troubles

	troy weight

	Trucial States

	Truck Act

	*Trumpet Voluntary*

	Truro

	TSB

	TT

	TUC

	Tudor

	Antony Tudor

	House of Tudor

	Jethro Tull

	Royal Tunbridge ware

	Royal Tunbridge Wells

	Turf Club

	Alan Turing

	Turks and Caicos Islands

	Turnberry

	Eva Turner

	J.M.W. Turner

	Dick Turpin

	Tuvalu

	*TV Times*

	Tweed

	tweed

	Tweedledum and Tweedledee

	*Twelfth Night*

	*Twelve Days of Christmas*

	Twickenham

	*Twinkle, twinkle, little star*

	The *Two Gentlemen of Verona*

	The *Two Noble Kinsmen*

	two-party system

	2,000 Guineas

	Tyburn

	Wat Tyler

	Kenneth Tynan

	Tyne

	Tyneside

	Tynwald


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