TheUnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as theUnitedKingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off...
Sunday-only weekly newspapers are distributed nationally intheUnitedKingdom. Others circulate in Scotland only and still others serve smaller areas. National...
Until the advent of the railways, theUnitedKingdom used local mean time. Greenwich Mean Time was adopted first by the Great Western Railway in 1840 and...
theKingdom of Great Britain and theKingdom of Ireland merged, creating first theUnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and later theUnited Kingdom...
Bread and flour rationing started. January–March: Winter of 1946–1947intheUnitedKingdom: long hard frost and deep snow. Frost destroyed a huge amount...
is the second-largest religion intheUnitedKingdom, with results from the 2021 Census recording just under four million Muslims, or 6.0% of the total...
citizens of theUnitedKingdom. The term includes people born inthe UK who are of Polish descent and Polish-born people who reside inthe UK. There are...
The monarchy of theUnitedKingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by theUnitedKingdom by which a hereditary...
Below are lists of the countries and territories that were formerly ruled or administered by theUnitedKingdom or part of the British Empire (including...
IntheUnitedKingdom, the word liberalism can have any of several meanings. Scholars primarily use the term to refer to classical liberalism. The term...
Metrication, the process of introducing the metric system of measurement in place of imperial units, has made steady progress intheUnitedKingdom since the mid-20th...
TheUnitedKingdom straddles the higher mid-latitudes between 49° and 61°N on the western seaboard of Europe. Since the UK is always in or close to the...
The diplomatic foreign relations of theUnitedKingdom are conducted by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, headed by the Foreign Secretary...
Law enforcement intheUnitedKingdom is organised separately in each of the legal systems of theUnitedKingdom: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern...
becomes extinct, it may subsequently be recreated by the reigning monarch at any time. IntheUnitedKingdom, there is nothing intrinsic to any dukedom that...
punishment intheUnitedKingdom predates the formation of the UK, having been used within the British Isles from ancient times until the second half of the 20th...
suggested by William D. Rubinstein that antisemitism was lower intheUnitedKingdom than in a number of other European countries and that this was so for...
Independence from theUnitedKingdom may refer to any one of the many campaigns (both historical and current), events, documents and legislation regarding...
0.8% of the British population as of 2021, forming theUnitedKingdom's fourth-largest religious group. According to the 2021 UnitedKingdom census, British...
objects (UFOs) intheUnitedKingdom. Many more sightings have become known since the gradual release, between 2008 and 2013, of the Ministry of Defence's...
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