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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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	BOAC

	Board of Trade

	Boat Race

	bobby

	*Bobby Shafto*

	Bodiam Castle

	Bodmin Moor

	Bodnant

	'body of a weak and feeble woman'

	Boer War

	Bognor Regis

	The *Bohemian Girl*

	Robert Bolt

	Bolton

	Bolton Abbey

	Bolton Wanderers

	Bombay

	Margaret Bondfield

	Bond Street

	bone china

	St Boniface

	Richard Parkes Bonington

	Boodle's

	Booker

	Booker Prize

	The *Book of Common Prayer*

	George Boole

	Boots

	borough

	borstal

	Boscobel

	Boston

	James Boswell

	Bosworth Field

	botanic gardens

	Botswana

	Boudicca

	Adrian Boult

	Boulting brothers

	Matthew Boulton

	Bournemouth

	Bournville

	Bovril

	Bow Bells

	Thomas Bowdler

	Elizabeth Bowen

	Bowes Museum

	Bow Group

	Bowhill

	bowler

	bowls

	Bowood House

	Bow porcelain

	Bow Street

	Box Grove

	boxing

	Boxing Day

	Charles Boycott

	The *Boy Friend*

	The *Boyhood of Raleigh*

	Robert Boyle

	Battle of the Boyne

	Thomas Shotter Boys

	Boys' Clubs

	*Boy's Own Paper*

	BP

	Bradford

	Bradford-on-Avon

	Charles Bradlaugh

	Bradshaw

	Braemar Castle

	Braemar Gathering

	William and Lawrence Bragg

	Dennis Brain

	The *Brains Trust*

	Bramley

	Brands Hatch

	Bill Brandt

	brass bands

	memorial brasses

	*Brave New World*

	Bray

	bread-and-butter pudding

	Brechin

	Brecon

	St Brendan

	Bren gun

	*Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable*

	*Brideshead Revisited*

	brides in the bath

	Frank Bridge

	*Bridge on the River Kwai*

	*Brief Encounter*

	*Brief Lives*

	Brigadier Gerard

	John Bright

	Brighton

	*Brighton Rock*

	Brighton Run

	Brig o' Balgownie

	James Brindley

	Brink's-Mat

	Bristol

	Britannia

	*Britannia*

	British Academy

	British Antarctic Territory

	British Association

	British Constitution

	British Council

	British Empire

	British Expeditionary Force

	British Grand Prix

	British Indian Ocean Territory

	British Israelites

	Royal British Legion

	British Library

	British Museum

	Britons

	Benjamin Britten

	Broadcasting House

	Broadlands

	Broadmoor

	Broadway

	Broadwood

	brochs

	Brodick Castle

	brogues

	Brompton Oratory

	Brontë sisters

	Bronze Age

	Raja Brooke

	Rupert Brooke

	Brooklands

	Brooks's

	brothel-creepers

	Capability Brown

	Ford Madox Brown

	Thomas Browne

	Brownies

	Robert Browning

	William Bruce

	Bruce's Cave

	Beau Brummell

	Brunei

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel

	Brut

	David Bryce

	Bryn Celli Ddu

	BSA

	B Special

	BT

	*Bubbles*

	John Buchan

	Buckfast Abbey

	Duke of Buckingham

	Buckingham Palace

	Buddhists

	Budget

	building societies

	bulldog

	Bull-dog Drummond

	bull terrier

	bumping races

	bungalow

	John Bunyan

	Richard Burbage

	Burberry

	William Burges

	Anthony Burgess

	burgh

	Burghclere

	Lord Burghley

	Burghley House

	The *Burial of Sir John Moore*

	Edmund Burke

	Burke and Hare

	*Burke's Peerage*

	Lord Burlington

	*Burlington Bertie*

	Burlington House

	Burmah Oil

	Edward Burne-Jones

	Frances Hodgson Burnett

	Fanny Burney

	Robert Burns

	Burns Night

	Burrell Collection

	Burton

	Richard Burton

	Bury St Edmunds

	Matt Busby

	Bush House

	but and ben

	Rab Butler

	Samuel Butler

	Butlin's

	Butskellism

	Clara Butt

	William Butterfield

	butty

	Buxton

	Admiral Byng

	William Byrd

	Lord Byron


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