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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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	*QE2*

	Q-ships

	Quakers

	quarter days

	quartos and folios

	Queen Anne

	*Queen Mary*

	Queen Mary's Dolls' House

	Queen Mother

	The *Queen of Hearts*

	Queen's Beasts

	Queensberry Rules

	Queen's Birthday

	Queen's Club

	turning Queen's evidence

	Queen's House

	Queen's Park

	Questors

	Quorn

	R-38

	R-101

	Peter Rachman

	Commission for Racial Equality

	rackets

	Arthur Rackham

	radio

	*Radio Times*

	Henry Raeburn

	Raffles

	Stamford Raffles

	The *Ragged Trousered Philanthropists*

	Ragley Hall

	Rahere

	railways

	rainfall

	Rainhill trials

	*Rain, Steam and Speed*

	The Raj

	The *Rake's Progress*

	Walter Raleigh

	Marie Rambert

	Rambert Dance Company

	Ramblers' Association

	Allan Ramsay

	William Ramsay

	Alf Ramsey

	Michael Ramsey

	Ranelagh Gardens

	Rangers

	J. Arthur Rank

	Arthur Ransome

	The *Rape of the Lock*

	Raphael Cartoons

	Rastafarians

	rationing

	Terence Rattigan

	Ravenscraig

	John Ray

	Reading

	real tennis

	*Rebecca*

	Rebecca Riots

	Received Pronunciation

	Reckitt & Colman

	The *Recruiting Officer*

	Red Arrows

	The *Red Barn*

	redbrick

	redcoats

	Red Devils

	The *Red Flag*

	Red Flag Act

	Michael Redgrave

	Red Hand of Ulster

	Little *Red Riding Hood*

	Red Rum

	The *Red Shoes*

	red tape

	Carol Reed

	Reed International

	reels

	Reform Act

	Reformation

	Reform Club

	Regency

	Regent's Park

	Regent Street

	Lord Reith

	Relate

	remittance man

	Renaissance

	John Rennie

	Humphry Repton

	Restoration

	retrievers

	Reuters

	Revolution of 1688

	revue

	Joshua Reynolds

	Osborne Reynolds

	Cecil Rhodes

	Rhondda Valley

	rhyming slang

	rib vaulting

	David Ricardo

	rice pudding

	Richard I

	Richard II

	*Richard II*

	Richard III

	*Richard III*

	Gordon Richards

	Ralph Richardson

	Samuel Richardson

	Richmond

	Richmond

	Richmond Park

	'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

	*Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross*

	Ridgeway

	riding

	Lucie Rie

	Rievaulx Abbey

	Rillington Place

	*Ring a ring o' roses*

	Riot Act

	Ripon

	Ritz Hotel

	The *Rivals*

	RNLI

	The *Road to Wigan Pier*

	O The *Roast Beef of Old England*

	robbing Peter to pay Paul

	Robert II

	Robert III

	Robert the Bruce

	Gilbert Roberts

	David Roberts

	George Robey

	Robin Hood

	*Robinson Crusoe*

	Rob Roy

	Rochester

	Lord Rochester

	rock

	rock cake

	rockery

	*Rock of Ages*

	The *Rocky Horror Show*

	rococo

	Roedean School

	Sir Roger de Coverley

	*Roget's Thesaurus*

	*Rokeby Venus*

	Rolls-Royce

	roly-poly pudding

	Roman Catholics

	Romanesque

	Romans

	Romantic Movement

	*Romeo and Juliet*

	George Romney

	*Room at the Top*

	*Roots*

	Lord Rosebery

	Rose Theatre

	Rosetta stone

	Roslin Chapel

	James Clark Ross

	Ronald Ross

	Rossetti family

	Duke of Rothesay

	Rothmans

	Rothschild

	Rotten Row

	Louis François Roubiliac

	rounders

	Roundheads

	Round Table

	round towers

	Rover

	Rowallane

	Thomas Rowlandson

	Royal Academy

	Royal Air Force

	Royal Air Force Museum

	Royal and Ancient

	Royal Armoured Corps

	Royal Armouries

	Royal Arms

	Royal Artillery

	Royal Assent

	Royal Automobile Club

	Royal Ballet

	Royal Birkdale

	Royal Commission

	Royal Court Theatre

	Royal Engineers

	Royal Exchange

	Royal Exchange

	Royal Family

	Royal Film Performance

	Royal Free Hospital

	Royal Geographical Society

	Royal Horticultural Society

	royal house

	royal house of Scotland

	Royal Institution

	Royal International Horse Show

	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

	Royal Lytham

	Royal Marines

	Royal Museum of Scotland

	Royal National Institute for the Blind

	Royal National Institute for Deaf People

	Royal Naval College

	Royal Navy

	Royal Observatory

	Royal Opera House

	Royal Pavilion, Brighton

	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

	Royal Philharmonic Society

	Royal Prerogative

	royal salute

	Royal Scottish Academy

	Royal Scottish Orchestra

	Royal Shakespeare Company

	Royal Society

	Royal Society of Arts

	Royal Society of Edinburgh

	Royal Troon

	Royal Warrant

	royal we

	RSPB

	RSPCA

	Peter Paul Rubens

	RUC

	Rugby

	rugby football

	*Rule, Britannia!*

	Rumpole

	runes

	Runnymede

	Prince Rupert

	Rupert Bear

	rural protection

	John Ruskin

	Bertrand Russell

	Lord John Russell

	Russell of the

	Ernest Rutherford

	Margaret Rutherford

	Ruthwell

	Ryder Cup

	Martin Ryle


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