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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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	cabal

	Cabinet

	cabinet pudding

	Cabinet War Rooms

	John Cabot

	Cadbury Schweppes

	Jack Cade

	Cader Idris

	Caedmon

	Caerlaverock Castle

	Caerleon

	Caernarfon

	Caerphilly

	Caerphilly

	Café Royal

	Cairngorms

	Cairnpapple Hill

	Calais

	Calcutta

	Calcutta Cup

	Caledonia

	Caledonian Canal

	Caledonian Club

	calendar

	Calke Abbey

	James Callaghan

	Calton Hill

	Cambria

	Cambridge

	Camden Town Group

	Camelot

	Julia Margaret Cameron

	Colen Campbell

	Donald Campbell

	Malcolm Campbell

	Mrs Patrick Campbell

	Henry Campbell-Bannerman

	Edmund Campion

	Canada

	Canaletto

	canals

	Canary Wharf

	George Canning

	Cannock Chase

	Canterbury

	Archbishop of Canterbury

	The *Canterbury Tales*

	Canute

	'Can you hear me, mother?'

	Cape Wrath

	capital punishment

	Caractacus

	Cardiff

	Cardiff Arms Park

	cardigan

	Lord Cardigan

	The *Caretaker*

	*Cargoes*

	Carisbrooke Castle

	Carlisle

	Carl Rosa Opera Company

	Carlton Club

	Carlton House

	Thomas Carlyle

	Carmarthen

	Carnaby Street

	Andrew Carnegie

	Carnoustie

	Caroline

	carols

	John Carr

	Carrickfergus

	Lewis Carroll

	Carry On series

	Edward Carson

	Angela Carter

	Howard Carter

	carthorses

	Barbara Cartland

	Roger Casement

	Casket Letters

	Cassandra

	Hugh Casson

	Castell Coch

	Castle Campbell

	Castle Coole

	Castle Howard

	Lord Castlereagh

	Castle Ward

	Castlewellan

	Cat and Mouse Act

	Catherine of Aragon

	Catherine Howard

	Catherine Parr

	*Catholic Herald*

	*Cathy Come Home*

	*Cats*

	Catseye

	cattle

	Cavaliers

	Edith Cavell

	Henry Cavendish

	Cavendish Laboratory

	Cawdor Castle

	William Caxton

	Cayman Islands

	Robert Cecil

	Celtic

	Celtic cross

	Celtic languages

	Celts

	Cenotaph

	censorship

	census

	CENTO

	Central Statistical Office

	Cerne Giant

	Mr Chad

	James Chadwick

	HMS *Challenger*

	Austen Chamberlain

	Joseph Chamberlain

	Neville Chamberlain

	Chamberlain's Men

	Chambers

	William Chambers

	Harry Champion

	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

	Chancellor of the Exchequer

	Channel Islands

	Channel Tunnel

	Charlie Chaplin

	Herbert Chapman

	Charge of the Light Brigade

	Charing Cross

	Charing Cross Road

	Charing Cross Station

	*Chariots of Fire*

	Charity Commission

	Charlecote Park

	Charles I

	Charles II

	*Charley's Aunt*

	*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*

	Charlotte Square

	Charterhouse

	Chartists

	Chartwell

	Chatham

	Earl of Chatham

	Chatsworth

	Thomas Chatterton

	Geoffrey Chaucer

	Cheddar

	Cheddar Gorge

	Cheddleton Flint Mill

	Chedworth Roman Villa

	Chelmsford

	Chelsea

	Chelsea Arts Club

	Chelsea bun

	Chelsea Flower Show

	Chelsea Hospital

	Chelsea Physic Garden

	Chelsea porcelain

	Cheltenham

	Cheltenham Festival

	Chepstow

	Chequers

	*Cherry ripe*

	Lord Cherwell

	Leonard Cheshire

	Cheshire cheese

	Cheshire Cheese

	Chesil Bank

	Chester

	Chesterfield

	Lord Chesterfield

	G.K. Chesterton

	Albert Chevalier

	Cheviots

	*Chevy Chase*

	Chichester

	Francis Chichester

	chief

	Chief Rabbi

	*Childe Harold's Pilgrimage*

	*Children's Hour*

	Chillingham cattle

	Chiltern Hundreds

	Chindits

	Chinese

	chinoiserie

	chintz

	Thomas Chippendale

	Chirk Castle

	Chiswick House

	chocolate

	Fletcher Christian

	Christian Aid

	Christians

	Christian Scientists

	Agatha Christie

	Christie's

	Christmas

	Christmas cake

	Christmas cards

	A *Christmas Carol*

	Christmas pudding

	Christmas tree

	Christ's Hospital

	Church Army

	Church Commissioners

	Winston Churchill

	Church of England

	Church of Scotland

	chutney


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