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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Waddesdon Manor  

General Wade  

Louis Wain  

Alfred Wainwright  

Wakefield  

Wakehurst Place  

wakes week  

Wales  

Prince of Wales  

University of Wales  

Max Wall  

Alfred Russell Wallace  

Edgar Wallace  

William Wallace  

Wallace Collection  

Barnes Wallis  

Wall's  

Horace Walpole  

Robert Walpole  

Walsingham  

Francis Walsingham  

Izaak Walton  

William Walton  

Wapping  

Perkin Warbeck  

The Warden  

wardian case  

Wardour Street  

War Graves Commission  

warming-pan baby  

'Plum' Warner  

War of 1812  

War of the Worlds  

War on Want  

War Requiem  

HMS Warrior  

Warsaw Concerto  

Wars of the Roses  

warts and all  

Warwick  

Warwick the Kingmaker  

Warwick vase  

The Wash  

Washington Old Hall  

The Waste Land  

John Wastell  

water  

The Water-Babies  

water closet  

watercolour  

Alfred Waterhouse  

John William Waterhouse  

Waterloo  

Waterloo Station  

water polo  

Watership Down  

Watling Street  

Robert Watson-Watt  

James Watt  

G.F. Watts  

Isaac Watts  

Evelyn Waugh  

Lord Wavell  

Waverley  

Waverley novels  

The Waves  

Wayland Smith  

The Way of the World  

Aston Webb  

Beatrice and Sidney Webb  

John Webster  

Wedgwood  

welfare state  

Wellcome  

Wellington  

Duke of Wellington  

Wellington College  

wellingtons  

The Well of Loneliness  

Wells  

Bombardier Billy Wells  

H.G. Wells  

Welsh  

The Welsh  

Welsh dragon  

Welsh Folk Museum  

Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum  

Welsh National Opera  

Welsh rabbit  

Wembley  

Wensleydale  

Wentworth  

'We shall fight on the beaches'  

Charles Wesley  

John Wesley  

Wessex  

Rebecca West  

West Bromwich Albion  

Westbury Court  

Westbury White Horse  

West End  

Western Daily Press  

Western Samoa  

West Ham United  

West Indies Federation  

Westland  

Richard Westmacott  

Westminster  

Archbishop of Westminster  

Westminster Abbey  

Westminster Bridge  

Westminster Cathedral  

Westminster cemeteries  

Westminster Hall  

Westminster Hospital  

Westminster School  

Westonbirt Arboretum  

Westward Ho!  

West Wycombe Park  

wets  

What the Papers Say  

'Whaur's your Wullie Shakspear noo?'  

Charles Wheatstone  

Mortimer Wheeler  

Huw Wheldon  

whelk stall  

Which?  

While shepherds watched their flocks by night  

Whips  

Whipsnade  

whisky  

Whisky Galore  

whist  

James McNeill Whistler  

Whistler brothers  

Whitaker's Almanack  

Whitbread  

Whitby  

Gilbert White  

Whitechapel  

White City  

The White Devil  

George Whitefield  

Whitehall  

Whitehall Theatre  

white paper  

White's  

White Ship  

Whithorn  

Dick Whittington  

Frank Whittle  

Joseph Whitworth  

Who killed Cock Robin?  

Who's Who  

Edward Whymper  

Widdicombe Fair  

Wigan  

Wigmore Hall  

William Wilberforce  

Oscar Wilde  

John Wilkes  

William Wilkins  

William  

William  

William II  

William III  

William IV  

Emlyn Williams  

William the Conqueror  

willow pattern  

Wilmington Long Man  

Angus Wilson  

Charles Wilson  

Harold Wilson  

Harriette Wilson  

Richard Wilson  

Wilton  

Wilton Diptych  

Wilton House  

Wimbledon  

Winchester  

Bishop of Winchester  

Windermere  

The Wind in the Willows  

Windmill Theatre  

window tax  

Windsor  

House of Windsor  

Windsor chair  

Orde Wingate  

winkle-pickers  

The Winslow Boy  

winter of discontent  

Winter Queen  

The Winter's Tale  

Wisden  

Cardinal Wiseman  

'The wisest fool in Christendom  

Wisley  

Ludwig Wittgenstein  

Woburn Abbey  

P.G. Wodehouse  

General Wolfe  

Wolfenden Report  

Wolfson Foundation  

William Hyde Wollaston  

Wollaton Hall  

Mary Wollstonecraft  

Wolseley  

Cardinal Wolsey  

Wolverhampton  

The Woman in White  

Woman's Hour  

Wombles  

Women's Institutes  

John Wood  

Woodchester  

Sydney Wooderson  

Elizabeth Woodville  

Wookey Hole  

wool  

Virginia Woolf  

Leonard Woolley  

Woolsack  

Woolwich  

The Woolwich  

Woolworths  

Worcester  

Worcester Pearmain  

Worcester porcelain  

Worcester sauce  

William Wordsworth  

working men's club  

World Cup  

BBC World Service  

World War I  

World War II  

Wormwood Scrubs  

worsted  

Worzel Gummidge  

WRAC  

WRAF  

Christopher Wren  

wrestling  

Billy Wright  

Wright of Derby  

WRNS  

WRVS  

Wuthering Heights  

James Wyatt  

Jeffry Wyatville  

William Wycherley  

John Wycliffe  

Wye  

Yalta  

The Yellow Book  

ye olde  

yeoman  

Yeomen of the Guard  

The Yeomen of the Guard  

Yes, Minister  

Henry Yevele  

YMCA  

Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò  

York  

Archbishop of York  

Duke of York  

House of York  

Yorkshire Post  

Yorkshire pudding  

Yorkshire Ripper  

Yorkshire Sculpture Park  

Arthur Young  

The Young Ones  

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra  

The Young Visiters  

Youth Clubs  

Battles of Ypres  

yuppies  

YWCA  

Zambia  

Zanzibar  

Z Cars  

zebra crossing  

Zimbabwe  

Zinoviev letter  

Johann Zoffany  

Zulu War  



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