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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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	AA

	AAA

	Abbey National

	Abbey Dore

	Abbey Road

	Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

	Abbotsbury

	Abbotsford

	abdication crisis

	Aberdeen

	Lord Aberdeen

	Aberdeen Angus

	Aberfan

	Abernethy

	Aberystwyth

	*Abide with me*

	Harold Abrahams

	Academy of Ancient Music

	Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields

	Accrington Stanley

	acid bath murders

	Act of Parliament

	Lord Acton

	Acton Burnell

	Robert Adam

	*Adam Bede*

	Bodkin Adams

	Robert Adamson

	Adam style

	Joseph Addison

	Addled Parliament

	Adelphi

	Aden

	Admiral's Cup

	Admiral's Men

	Admiralty

	Admiralty Arch

	Lord Adrian

	Adrian IV

	Adrian Mole

	advocate

	Aerospace Museum

	Aesthetic Movement

	Age Concern

	Agincourt

	St Aidan

	Ailsa Craig

	*Aladdin*

	El Alamein

	Lord Alanbrooke

	St Alban

	Albany

	Prince Albert

	Royal Albert Hall

	Albert Memorial

	Albion

	The *Alchemist*

	Alcock and Brown

	Alcuin

	Aldeburgh

	John Alden

	alderman

	Aldermaston

	Aldershot

	Lord Alexander

	Mrs Alexander

	Alexander I

	Alexander II

	Alexander III

	Alexandra Palace

	The *Alexandria Quartet*

	Alfred Jewel

	Alfred the Great

	*Ali Baba*

	*Alice in Wonderland*

	Allan-a-Dale

	'Gubby' Allen

	Lord Allenby

	All England Badminton Championship

	Edward Alleyn

	Alliance

	Allies

	alliterative verse

	allotments

	Alloway

	*All people that on earth do dwell*

	*All's Well that Ends Well*

	*All things bright and beautiful*

	Lawrence Alma-Tadema

	almshouse

	Alnwick

	Althorp

	*Amadeus*

	Amadeus Quartet

	amateur

	The *Ambassadors*

	America

	War of American Independence

	America's Cup

	Kingsley Amis

	Ampleforth College

	ancient lights

	The *Ancient Mariner*

	Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

	St Andrew

	*And when did you last see your father?*

	*Andy Capp*

	Angel, Islington

	Angles

	Anglesey

	Anglia

	Anglican Communion

	angling

	Anglo-Catholicism

	Anglo-Dutch Wars

	Anglo-Irish

	Anglo-Irish Agreement

	Anglo-Irish War

	*Anglo-Saxon Chronicle*

	Anglo-Saxon kingdoms

	Anglo-Saxons

	angry young men

	Anguilla

	*Animal Farm*

	Animal Liberation Front

	Anne

	Anne Boleyn

	Anne Hathaway's Cottage

	Anne of Cleves

	*Annie Laurie*

	Pietro Annigoni

	'annual income twenty pounds'

	another place

	St Anselm

	*Anthem for Doomed Youth*

	Antigua and Barbuda

	Antonine Wall

	*Antony and Cleopatra*

	appeasement

	Appleby

	Edward Appleton

	April Fool's Day

	Apsley House

	The *Arabian Nights*

	Arbroath

	The *Archers*

	Forest of Arden

	Mary Arden

	Ardoch Roman Camp

	Arkle

	*Ark Royal*

	Richard Arkwright

	Armada

	Armagh

	Armistice

	*Arms and the Man*

	Armstrong Siddeley

	Army

	Thomas Arne

	Arnhem

	Dr Arnold

	Matthew Arnold

	The *Arnolfini Marriage*

	Arsenal

	Art Deco

	King Arthur

	Art Nouveau

	Arts and Crafts Movement

	Arundel

	Ascension

	The *Ascent of Man*

	Roger Ascham

	Ascot

	ASH

	Peggy Ashcroft

	Ashes

	The *Ash Grove*

	Ashmolean Museum

	Frederick Ashton

	Arthur Askey

	Herbert Asquith

	assembly rooms

	F.W. Aston

	Aston Martin

	Aston Villa

	Nancy Astor

	Astronomer Royal

	*As You Like It*

	Athenaeum

	Battle of the Atlantic

	Atlantic Charter

	Clement Attlee

	John Aubrey

	Auchinleck

	Field Marshal Auchinleck

	W.H. Auden

	Audley End

	Augustan Age

	St Augustine

	*Auld Lang Syne*

	Aunt Sally

	Jane Austen

	Austin

	Australia

	War of the Austrian Succession

	The *Autobiography of a Super-Tramp*

	*Autumn Leaves*

	Avalon

	Avebury

	The *Avengers*

	Avon

	*A was an apple-pie*

	Axminster

	A.J. Ayer

	Aylesbury

	Ayot St Lawrence

	Ayr


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