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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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	Fabian Society

	*Façade*

	Factory Acts

	FA Cup

	The *Faerie Queene*

	Thomas Fairfax

	Fairford

	Fair Isle

	fair shares for all

	Falkirk

	Falkland

	Falkland Islands

	Falklands War

	Falstaff

	Famous Five

	*Fanny Hill*

	*Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis*

	*Fantasia on British Sea Songs*

	fan vaulting

	Michael Faraday

	*Far from the Madding Crowd*

	Farnborough Air Show

	Farne Islands

	George Farquhar

	Tommy Farr

	Fastnet Race

	Father Christmas

	Father of the House

	*Fawlty Towers*

	FD

	Fenians

	Fens

	Roger Fenton

	*Fern Hill*

	Kathleen Ferrier

	Royal Festival Hall

	Festival of Britain

	Fettes College

	feudalism

	The Few

	Ffestiniog Railway

	The *Field*

	Henry Fielding

	Field of Cloth of Gold

	Gracie Fields

	'15 Rebellion

	The *'Fighting Téméraire'*

	Fiji

	La *Fille Mal Gardée*

	*Financial Times*

	'finest hour'

	Fingal's Cave

	fingerprints

	finnan haddie

	Ronald Firbank

	first-class cricket

	First Folio

	fish and chips

	Fishbourne Roman Palace

	Geoffrey Fisher

	John Fisher

	'fit for heroes'

	Fitzwilliam Museum

	Five Members

	fives

	Five Towns

	John Flamsteed

	Flanders and Swann

	Flanders fields

	'Flanders mare'

	Harry Flashman

	Fleet Air Arm

	Fleet prison

	'the fleet's lit up

	Fleet Street

	Alexander Fleming

	Ambrose Fleming

	Ian Fleming

	flint

	Flodden

	*Flook*

	Florence Court

	*Flower of Scotland*

	The *Flowers o' the Forest*

	Flying Scotsman

	follies

	Margot Fonteyn

	fool

	football

	Football Association

	Football League

	Foot Guards

	Florrie Forde

	Foreign Office

	C.S. Forester

	Forestry Commission

	George Formby

	E.M. Forster

	The *Forsyte Saga*

	Forth

	Forth-Clyde Canal

	Fortnum and Mason

	Fort William

	'45 Rebellion

	Fosse Way

	Fougasse

	Fountains Abbey

	*Four Quartets*

	John Fowler

	Fowler's

	Charles James Fox

	George Fox

	*Foxe's Book of Martyrs*

	Foxhunter

	franchise

	*Frankenstein*

	John Franklin

	James Frazer

	Free Church of Scotland

	Freemasons

	French cricket

	French leave

	French Revolutionary Wars

	friendly societies

	Elizabeth Frink

	William Frith

	Martin Frobisher

	Frogmore

	front bench

	frost fairs

	C.B. Fry

	Elizabeth Fry

	Roger Fry

	Sergeant Fulton

	Henry Fuseli

	Fylingdales

	Fyvie Castle


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