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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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	*Cider with Rosie*

	*Cinderella*

	*Cinderella*

	Cinque Ports

	Cirencester

	Citizens Advice Bureau

	Citizens Theatre

	city

	City

	City and Guilds

	City Livery Companies

	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

	*Civilisation*

	Civil List

	Civil Service

	clan

	Clapham Junction

	Clapham omnibus

	Clapham Sect

	Claremont

	Clarence House

	Earl of Clarendon

	Clarendon Code

	claret

	Claridge's

	Jim Clark

	Kenneth Clark

	Classics

	Clava Cairns

	Claverton Manor

	Clean Air Act

	clearing banks

	Cleopatra's Needle

	Clickhimin Broch

	Clarice Cliff

	Clifton Suspension Bridge

	Clink

	Robert Clive

	Cliveden

	A *Clockwork Orange*

	clog dance

	Charles Clore

	close seasons

	clubs

	Clyde

	CND

	Coade stone

	coal

	Coalport porcelain

	Eric Coates

	John Cobb

	William Cobbett

	Richard Cobden

	Charles Coborn

	Charles Cochran

	John Cockcroft

	cockfighting

	cockney

	cod wars

	coffee

	Donald Coggan

	Coggeshall Grange Barn

	Edward Coke

	Coke of Norfolk

	Colchester

	*Cold Comfort Farm*

	Samuel Taylor Coleridge

	Coliseum

	College of Arms

	collies

	Admiral Collingwood

	Wilkie Collins

	*Colonel Bogey*

	St Columba

	St Columban

	The *Comedy of Errors*

	*Come into the garden, Maud*

	Comet

	'coming through the rye'

	commando

	Commercial Union

	common land

	common law

	common riding

	House of Commons

	Commonwealth

	Commonwealth

	Commonwealth Day

	Commonwealth Games

	Commonwealth Institute

	Communist Party of Great Britain

	Order of the Companions of Honour

	The *Compleat Angler*

	comprehensive school

	Ivy Compton-Burnett

	Compton Wynyates

	Arthur Conan Doyle

	Concorde

	Congregationalists

	William Congreve

	Coniston Water

	conkers

	Connaught

	The Conquest

	Joseph Conrad

	conscientious objectors

	conscription

	Conservative Party

	Consolidated Fund

	John Constable

	constitutional monarchy

	Conwy

	Captain Cook

	Thomas Cook

	Cookham

	Catherine Cookson

	Tommy Cooper

	Cooperative Movement

	Cooperative Party

	Copenhagen

	Copley Medal

	copperplate

	copyright

	copyright libraries

	coracle

	The *Coral Island*

	cor anglais

	co-respondents

	Corfe Castle

	corgi

	*Coriolanus*

	corned beef

	Cornish beam engine

	Cornish pasty

	Corn Laws

	Coronation

	Coronation Chair

	Coronation chicken

	coroner

	corporal punishment

	corridors of power

	Corunna

	John Sell Cotman

	Cotswolds

	cotton

	Billy Cotton

	Henry Cotton

	*Country Life*

	county

	county town

	*Courier*

	Courtauld Institute

	Courtaulds

	Court of St James's

	Coutts

	Covenanters

	Covent Garden

	Coventry

	Noel Coward

	Cowes

	William Cowper

	John Sell Cotman

	Cox's orange pippin

	Alexander Cozens

	John Robert Cozens

	George Crabbe

	Craigievar Castle

	Craigmillar Castle

	Cramond

	Walter Crane

	*Cranford*

	John Cranko

	Thomas Cranmer

	Cranwell

	Crathes Castle

	Crazy Gang

	Crécy

	Crichton Castle

	cricket

	Cries of London

	Crimean War

	Dr Crippen

	Stafford Cripps

	St Crispin

	*Crockford*

	Cromford Mill

	Richmal Crompton

	Samuel Crompton

	Oliver Cromwell

	Thomas Cromwell

	A.J. Cronin

	William Crookes

	croquet

	Anthony Crosland

	cross-benches

	*Crossing the Bar*

	crossing the floor

	crosswords

	The Crown

	Crown Jewels

	*Cruel Garden*

	The *Cruel Sea*

	Crufts

	George Cruikshank

	Crystal Palace

	Thomas Cubitt

	Cubs

	Cullinan diamond

	Culloden

	Nicholas Culpeper

	Culross

	Culzean Castle

	Duke of Cumberland

	Samuel Cunard

	Cup Final

	curate's egg

	curling

	curry

	Lord Curzon

	St Cuthbert

	*Cutty Sark*

	Cwm Idwal

	*Cymbeline*

	Cyprus


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