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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Baa, baa, black sheep  

Charles Babbage  

Babington Plot  

Baccarat Scandal  

J.C. Bach  

backbencher  

Francis Bacon  

Francis Bacon  

Nathaniel Bacon  

Roger Bacon  

Baconian theory  

Lord Baden-Powell  

Douglas Bader  

badminton  

Badminton House  

Baedeker raids  

Walter Bagehot  

Bagpipe Music  

bagpipes  

The Bahamas  

Bahrain  

Bailey bridge  

Edward Hodges Baily  

John Logie Baird  

Samuel White Baker  

baker's dozen  

Baker Street  

Robert Bakewell  

Bakewell tart  

Balaclava helmet  

Michael Balcon  

Stanley Baldwin  

A.J. Balfour  

Balfour Declaration  

John Ball  

ballad  

The Ballad of Reading Gaol  

R.M. Ballantyne  

John de Balliol  

Balmoral  

Bamburgh  

Banbury  

bangers and mash  

Bangladesh  

Bangor  

bank holiday  

Bank of England  

Bank of Scotland  

Joseph Banks  

Bankside  

bannock  

Bannockburn  

Banqueting House  

bap  

Baptists  

Bar  

Barbados  

Barbara Allen  

Barbarians  

Barber Institute of Fine Arts  

Barbican  

bar billiards  

John Barbirolli  

Barchester Towers  

Barclays Bank  

bards  

Bardsey  

Barebones Parliament  

barley sugar  

barley wine  

Barnardo's  

baroque  

Barra  

barrage balloon  

J.M. Barrie  

barrister  

Charles Barry  

Barsetshire  

Bartholomew Fair  

Bart's  

basic English  

Basil Brush  

John Baskerville  

Bass  

Bass Rock  

Hester Bateman  

H.M. Bateman  

H.E. Bates  

Bath  

Bath bun  

Bath Festival  

bathing machine  

Bath Oliver  

Battersea Dogs Home  

Battersea Power Station  

Battle Abbey  

Battle of Britain  

Bayeux Tapestry  

Lilian Baylis  

Joseph Bazalgette  

BBC  

BBC Orchestras  

Beachcomber  

Beachy Head  

Beaker folk  

Beamish North of England Open-Air Museum  

Beano  

bear-baiting  

Aubrey Beardsley  

beating the bounds  

Cecil Beaton  

Earl Beatty  

Beaufort Scale  

Beaulieu  

Beaumaris  

Beaumont and Fletcher  

The Beaux' Stratagem  

Lord Beaverbrook  

Thomas Becket  

William Beckford  

Bedales  

Beddgelert  

Bede  

Bedford  

Bedgebury National Pinetum  

Bedlam  

Thomas Beecham  

Beecham's Pills  

beefeaters  

Max Beerbohm  

Mrs Beeton  

The Beggar's Opera  

Beilby family  

Belfast  

HMS Belfast  

Belfast News Letter  

Belgravia  

Belisha beacon  

Belize  

Alexander Graham Bell  

La Belle Dame sans Merci  

Belleek ware  

Belle Vue  

Hilaire Belloc  

bell ringing  

Belshazzar's Feast  

Beltane  

Belvoir Castle  

Arnold Bennett  

Ben Nevis  

Jeremy Bentham  

Bentley  

E.C. Bentley  

Beowulf  

Jack Beresford  

George Berkeley  

Lennox Berkeley  

Berkeley Castle  

Berkeley Square  

Isaiah Berlin  

Bermuda  

Bertram Mills  

Berwick-upon-Tweed  

Annie Besant  

Henry Bessemer  

Bess of Hardwick  

'best-laid schemes o' mice an' men'  

Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood  

John Betjeman  

'better 'ole'  

''Tis better to have loved and lost  

Betws-y-Coed  

Aneurin Bevan  

Beveridge Report  

Beverley  

Ernest Bevin  

Bevin boys  

Bevis Marks Synagogue  

Thomas Bewick  

Beyond the Fringe  

BhS  

Bible in English  

Biddulph Grange  

Big Bang  

Big Ben  

Biggles  

The Big Issue  

billiards  

Billingsgate Market  

Bill of Rights  

Billy Budd  

Billy Bunter  

Billy Liar  

bingo  

Birmingham  

Birmingham Post  

Birmingham Royal Ballet  

Henry Bishop  

Bisley  

Bisto  

bitter  

Joseph Black  

Blackadder  

Black and Tans  

Black Beauty  

Blackburn  

Blackburn Rovers  

black cap  

Black Country  

Black Death  

Patrick Blackett  

Blackheath  

Black Hole of Calcutta  

Blackpool  

Black Prince  

Black Rod  

Blackwell's  

Blaenavon  

Tony Blair  

Blair Castle  

William Blake  

blank verse  

Bleak House  

Blenheim  

Blenheim  

Blenheim Palace  

Bletchley Park  

Blickling Hall  

Captain Bligh  

Blighty  

Colonel Blimp  

The Blind Girl  

Arthur Bliss  

Blitz  

bloater  

Bloody Mary  

Bloody Sunday  

Bloody Tower  

Bloomsbury Group  

Bluebell Girls  

Blue-Coat Schools  

Blue Cross  

Blue Guides  

blue john  

Blue Peter  

blue plaques  

bluestocking  

Blue Vinney  

Enid Blyton  



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