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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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	Don Pacifico Incident

	*Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag*

	Paddington

	Paddington Bear

	Padstow

	Frederick Handley Page

	James Paget

	Thomas Paine

	Painshill Park

	Paisley

	Pakistan

	Palace of Westminster

	Pale

	Palestine

	Palladianism

	Pall Mall

	Samuel Palmer

	Lord Palmerston

	P&O

	Mrs Pankhurst

	pantomime

	Andrzej Panufnik

	Papplewick Pumping Station

	Papua New Guinea

	Papworth

	Parachute Regiment

	*Paradise Lost*

	pargeting

	parish

	Mungo Park

	James Parkinson

	Parkinson's Law

	Park Lane

	Parliament

	parliamentary privilege

	Parliament House

	Parliament Square

	Charles Stewart Parnell

	Hubert Parry

	A *Passage to India*

	*Passport to Pimlico*

	Paston Letters

	patent

	Paternoster Row

	*Patience*

	St Patrick

	*pax Britannica*

	Joseph Paxton

	PC 49

	Pearly Kings and Queens

	Peter Pears

	*Pears Cyclopaedia*

	Pearson

	Peasants' Revolt

	pebble dash

	*'Peccavi'*

	Robert Peel

	peel tower

	Pembroke

	Penguin

	Peninsular War

	Penlee lifeboat

	William Penn

	*Pennies from Heaven*

	penny dreadfuls

	penny-farthing

	Penrhyn Castle

	Penshurst Place

	Penzance

	The *People*

	Samuel Pepys

	Spencer Perceval

	*Pericles, Prince of Tyre*

	Fred Perry

	*Persuasion*

	Perth

	Peterborough

	*Peter Grimes*

	Peter Jones

	Peterloo

	*Peter Pan*

	'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper'

	Petition of Right

	Flinders Petrie

	Petticoat Lane

	Petworth House

	Nikolaus Pevsner

	*Phantom of the Opera*

	Phiz

	Piccadilly

	Wilfred Pickles

	*Pickwick Papers*

	Picts

	The *Picture of Dorian Gray*

	*Picture Post*

	picturesque

	pidgin English

	The *Pied Piper of Hamelin*

	*Piers Plowman*

	Lester Piggott

	pigs

	Pilgrimage of Grace

	Pilgrim Fathers

	The *Pilgrim's Progress*

	Pilgrims' Way

	Pilkington

	pillar box

	pillory

	Piltdown man

	Pimm's

	*Pineapple Poll*

	Arthur Wing Pinero

	pink gin

	John Piper

	pips

	Camille Pissarro

	Pitcairn Islands

	Pitlochry

	Pitman's

	Pitmedden

	William Pitt

	Plaid Cymru

	The *Planets*

	House of Plantagenet

	Plas Newydd

	Sylvia Plath

	'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

	Plimsoll line

	plus fours

	PLUTO

	Plymouth

	Plymouth Brethren

	The *Pobble who has no Toes*

	Pocahontas

	Poet Laureate

	Poets' Corner

	point-to-point

	Cardinal Pole

	Polesden Lacey

	police

	political parties

	poll tax

	pommy

	*Pomp and Circumstance*

	ponies

	Pont Cysyllte

	Pontin's

	Pontypool

	Pontypridd

	Pony Club

	pools

	Poor Laws

	pop art

	Alexander Pope

	*Pop goes the weasel!*

	Popish Plot

	Karl Popper

	Poppy Day

	population

	Porlock

	porridge

	*Porridge*

	port

	Portland cement

	Portland stone

	Portmeirion

	Portobello Road

	Porton Down

	Portsmouth

	Port Sunlight

	Port Talbot

	posh

	postcode

	Postman Pat

	Post Office

	potato

	*Pot Black*

	Potsdam

	Percivall Pott

	Beatrix Potter

	Dennis Potter

	Stephen Potter

	The Potteries

	pound

	pound in your pocket

	Powderhall

	Anthony Powell

	Enoch Powell

	The *Power and the Glory*

	Powis Castle

	John Henry Poynting

	'precious stone set in the silver sea'

	premium bonds

	Pre-Raphaelites

	Presbyterians

	Preseli Hills

	*Press and Journal*

	Press Association

	Preston

	Preston North End

	Prestwick

	*Pride and Prejudice*

	J.B. Priestley

	Joseph Priestley

	Prime Minister

	The *Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*

	Prince Consort

	Princes in the Tower

	Princess Royal

	Princes Street

	prison conditions

	The *Prisoner*

	John Pritchard

	V.S. Pritchett

	*Private Eye*

	*Private Lives*

	Private Member's Bill

	privatization

	Privy Council

	Profumo Affair

	Proms

	Prospect of Whitby

	protector

	Protectorate

	Prudential

	Prufrock

	pub

	Public Lending Right

	Public Record Office

	public school

	Puck

	*Puffing Billy*

	Augustus Welby Pugin

	punch

	*Punch*

	Punch and Judy

	punk

	Henry Purcell

	Puritans

	*Puss in Boots*

	*Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?*

	*Pygmalion*

	John Pym


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