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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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	The *Mabinogion*

	John McAdam

	Thomas Macaulay

	Macbeth

	*Macbeth*

	Hugh MacDiarmid

	Flora Macdonald

	Ramsay MacDonald

	mace

	Donald McGill

	William MacGonagall

	Archie McIndoe

	Compton Mackenzie

	mackintosh

	Charles Rennie Mackintosh

	Alistair MacLean

	Iain Macleod

	Harold Macmillan

	Kenneth MacMillan

	McNaughten Rules

	Louis MacNeice

	William Macready

	Madame Tussaud's

	Madeira

	Maes Howe

	Mafeking

	*Magna Carta*

	Maiden Castle

	Maid Marian

	maid of honour

	Maidstone

	Daily *Mail*

	The *Mail on Sunday*

	John Major

	*Major Barbara*

	Malawi

	Malaya

	Malaysia

	Malcolm III

	Malcolm IV

	The Maldives

	The Mall

	Malta

	Thomas Malthus

	The Malverns

	*Man and Superman*

	Manchester

	Manchester airport

	Manchester City

	*Manchester Evening News*

	Manchester Ship Canal

	Manchester United

	*Mandalay*

	mandated territories

	A *Man for all Seasons*

	*Manon*

	*Mansfield Park*

	Mansion House

	Mantovani

	Manx cat

	*Mappa Mundi*

	Marble Arch

	Marble Hill House

	The Marches

	Guglielmo Marconi

	St Margaret

	Margaret, the Maid of Norway

	Four Maries

	Mari Lwyd

	Marks & Spencer

	Duke of Marlborough

	Marlborough House

	Christopher Marlowe

	marmalade

	Marmite

	Marsden

	Marshall Plan

	Marshalsea

	Marston Moor

	Martello Towers

	John Martin

	Andrew Marvell

	Mary I

	Mary II

	*Mary had a little lamb*

	Mary Queen of Scots

	*Mary Rose*

	John Masefield

	Dan Maskell

	James Mason

	masque

	Mass-Observation

	Master of the Queen's (or King's) Music

	Master of the Rolls

	mastiff

	Matilda

	Matlock

	Stanley Matthews

	Mauchline

	*Maud*

	Maudsley Hospital

	Somerset Maugham

	Maundy money

	*Mauretania*

	Mauritius

	Hiram Maxim

	James Clerk Maxwell

	Peter May

	May Day

	*Mayerling*

	Mayfair

	The *Mayor of Casterbridge*

	MCC

	mead

	Meadowbank Sports Stadium

	*Measure for Measure*

	Meccano

	Peter Medawar

	Lord Melbourne

	Mellerstain

	melodrama

	Melrose

	Menai Strait

	Mencap

	Mendips

	Daniel Mendoza

	Mensa

	Mentmore Towers

	Yehudi Menuhin

	The *Merchant of Venice*

	Mercia

	George Meredith

	Order of Merit

	Merlin

	Mermaid

	The *Merry Wives of Windsor*

	Mersey

	*Messiah*

	metaphysical poets

	Meteor

	Meteorological Office

	Methodists

	metric system

	MG

	Middleham Jewel

	*Middlemarch*

	Middlesbrough

	Middlesex

	Midland Bank

	A *Midsummer Night's Dream*

	The *Mikado*

	Mildenhall Treasure

	Milford Haven

	Militant Tendency

	military bands

	militia

	John Stuart Mill

	John Everett Millais

	Max Miller

	Mill House

	Spike Milligan

	The *Mill on the Floss*

	Mill Reef

	Mills & Boon

	A.A. Milne

	Alfred Milner

	John Milton

	mincemeat

	mince pie

	MIND

	'mind your p's and q's'

	Minehead

	miners' strikes

	Mini

	miniatures

	miniskirt

	Minorca

	minster

	Royal Mint

	Minton pottery and porcelain

	Daily *Mirror*

	Miss

	missionaries

	Mitford family

	Mithraism

	Mitre

	Model Parliament

	mods and rockers

	Mold

	*Moll Flanders*

	Molly Maguires

	'I am monarch of all I survey

	General Monck

	Monday Club

	Claude Monet

	monetarism

	*Monitor*

	Monmouth

	Duke of Monmouth

	Mons

	Mons Meg

	The *Monstrous Regiment of Women*

	Montacute House

	Monte Cassino

	Simon de Montfort

	Field Marshal Montgomery

	A *Month in the Country*

	Lord Montrose

	Montserrat

	*Monty Python's Flying Circus*

	Monument

	The *Moonstone*

	Gerald Moore

	Henry Moore

	Thomas Moore

	Moorfields

	Kenneth More

	Thomas More

	The *Morecambe and Wise Show*

	Morgan

	Henry Morgan

	Robert Morley

	Morpeth

	Morris

	William Morris

	morris dance

	Herbert Morrison

	*Morte d'Arthur*

	Mortlake tapestries

	Morton's Fork

	Oswald Mosley

	Mosquito

	Stirling Moss

	Moss Bros

	Moss Side

	Mother Goose

	Mothering Sunday

	Mothers' Union

	Moto-cross

	motorcycles

	motor racing

	Motor Show

	Mottisfont Abbey

	Lord Mountbatten

	Mount Stewart

	Mousa

	The *Mousetrap*

	*Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy*

	*Mrs Dale's Diary*

	*Much Ado About Nothing*

	*Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh*

	muffins and crumpets

	Muffin the Mule

	Malcolm Muggeridge

	Muirfield

	Mulberry harbours

	mummers

	St Mungo

	Munich

	Alfred Munnings

	Munros

	The *Muppet Show*

	*Murder in the Cathedral*

	Iris Murdoch

	Murrayfield

	muscular Christianity

	Museum of London

	Museum of Mankind

	Museum of the Moving Image

	music hall

	*Music While You Work*

	Muslims

	mustard

	Eadweard Muybridge

	Myanmar

	*My Fair Lady*

	Androw Myllar

	mystery plays


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