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Enid Blyton

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Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. [1]

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Adèle Geras

Adèle Geras (born 15 March 1944) is an English writer for young children, teens and adults.

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Adventure

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking.

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Alfred Bestall

Alfred Edmeades "Fred" Bestall, MBE (Mandalay, Burma, 14 December 1892 – 15 January 1986 in Porthmadog, Wales), wrote and illustrated Rupert Bear for the London Daily Express, from 1935 to 1965.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Amelia Jane

Amelia Jane is a fictional character and book series by Enid Blyton.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Anne Fine

Anne Fine, OBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer, best known for children's books although she also writes for adults.

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Anthea Bell

Anthea Bell OBE (born 1936) is an English translator of numerous literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German and Danish.

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Armada Books

Armada Books was an imprint used to publish paperback titles from 1962 until 1995.

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Arthritis

Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.

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Arthur Mee

Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 187527 May 1943) was a British writer, journalist and educator.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire centred WNW of London and SSE of the county's administrative town, Aylesbury.

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Beckenham

Beckenham is a post town and district of London in the London Borough of Bromley, England.

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Bestime

Bestime (also spelled BeStime or Bes-time) was a British manufacturer of jigsaw puzzles and games.

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Biblical Magi

The biblical Magi (or; singular: magus), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, in the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

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Bickley

Bickley is a district and a local government electoral ward in South East London, within the London Borough of Bromley.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Book of Brownies

The Enid Blyton Book of Brownies was published in 1926, and is considered by some to be one of Blyton's greatest works for children.

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Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

Bourne End is a village mostly in the parish of Wooburn, but also in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Br'er Rabbit

Br'er Rabbit (Brother Rabbit), also spelled Bre'r Rabbit or Brer Rabbit or Bruh Rabbit, is a central figure as Uncle Remus tells stories of the Southern United States.

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Bromley

Bromley is a town in the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London, England, south east of Charing Cross.

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Bystander (magazine)

The Bystander was a British weekly tabloid magazine that featured reviews, topical drawings, cartoons and short stories.

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Carey Blyton

Carey Blyton (14 March 1932 – 13 July 2002) was a British composer and writer best known for his song Bananas in Pyjamas (1969), which later in 1992, it became an Australian children's television series, and for his work on Doctor Who.

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Cassell (publisher)

Cassell & Co is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

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Cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of permanent movement disorders that appear in early childhood.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chessington

Chessington is an area in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames within Greater London.

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Cheyne Walk

Cheyne Walk is an historic road, in Chelsea, London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Child Whispers

Child Whispers (published in 1922) is the first published work of the English children's author Enid Blyton, illustrated by her childhood friend and collaborator Phyllis Chase.

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Children's Film Foundation

The Children's Film Foundation was a non-profit-making organisation which made films for children in the United Kingdom, typically running for about 55 minutes.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Chorion (company)

Chorion Limited was an international media production company with offices in London, New York and Sydney.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.

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Colin Welch

James Colin Ross Welch (23 April 1924 – 28 January 1997) was a British political journalist.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Commonwealth

A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.

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Crucifixion of Jesus

The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33.

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Cutlery

Cutlery includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in Western culture.

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Dementia

Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.

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Denbies

Denbies is a large estate to the northwest of Dorking in Surrey, England.

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Denise Danks

Denise Danks is an English novelist, journalist and screenwriter.

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Distinguished Service Order

The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.

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DreamWorks Classics

DreamWorks Classics (formerly Classic Media) is an American entertainment company owned by DreamWorks Animation.

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East Dulwich

East Dulwich is a district of south East London, England in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Eileen Soper

Eileen Alice Soper (Municipal Borough of Enfield, 26 March 1905 – 18 March 1990) was an etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books.

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Eleven-plus

The eleven-plus (11-plus) is an examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection.

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Elf

An elf (plural: elves) is a type of human-shaped supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore.

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Elitism

Elitism is the belief or attitude that individuals who form an elite — a select group of people with a certain ancestry, intrinsic quality, high intellect, wealth, special skills, or experience — are more likely to be constructive to society as a whole, and therefore deserve influence or authority greater than that of others.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Enid (film)

Enid is a 2009 British biographical television film first broadcast on 16 November on BBC Four.

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Enid Blyton bibliography

This is a list of 762 books by Enid Blyton (1897–1968), an English children's writer who also wrote under the pseudonym of Mary Pollock.

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Enid Blyton Society

The Enid Blyton Society was formed in 1995 by collectors of Enid Blyton's work Norman Wright, Tony Summerfield and Michael Rouse.

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Enid Blyton's illustrators

The children's books of Enid Blyton were illustrated by a large number of artists, ranging from figures known for other work to humbler commercial artists, who in some cases were anonymous.

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Evans Brothers

Evans Brothers was a British publishing house that was part of the Evans Publishing Group UK.

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Evelyne Lallemand

Evelyne Lallemand was a French writer, noted for her continuation of Enid Blyton's The Secret Seven in the 1970s, producing an additional twelve books to add to Blyton's fifteen.

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Fairy

A fairy (also fata, fay, fey, fae, fair folk; from faery, faerie, "realm of the fays") is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural.

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Famous Five (film)

Famous Five (Fünf Freunde) is a 2012 German children's film.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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First Term at Malory Towers

First Term at Malory Towers is the first Malory Towers book by Enid Blyton.

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Five Are Together Again

Five Are Together Again (published 1963) is a children's novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton.

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Five Find-Outers

The Five Find-Outers and Dog, also known as The Five Find-Outers, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton and first published between 1943 and 1961.

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Five Go Down to the Sea

Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton.

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Five Go Mad in Dorset

Five Go Mad in Dorset was the first of three Five Go Mad specials from the long-running series of The Comic Strip Presents... television comedy films.

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Five Have a Mystery to Solve (film)

Five Have a Mystery to Solve is a 6-part 1964 British film serial made by the Children's Film Foundation, based on the novel of the same name by Enid Blyton.

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Five Have Plenty of Fun

Five Have Plenty Of Fun is the 14th novel in ''The Famous Five'' series by Enid Blyton.

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Five on a Hike Together

Five on a Hike Together is the tenth novel in the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton.

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Five on a Treasure Island

Five on a Treasure Island (published in 1942) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton.

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Five on a Treasure Island (film)

Five on a Treasure Island is an 8-part 1957 British film serial made by the Children's Film Foundation, based on the novel of the same name by Enid Blyton.

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Five on Kirrin Island Again

Five On Kirrin Island Again is the sixth novel in the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton.

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Fox Terrier

Fox Terriers are two different breeds of the terrier dog type: the Smooth Fox Terrier and the Wire Fox Terrier.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.

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George Newnes

Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet (13 March 1851 – 9 June 1910) was an English publisher and editor and a founding father of popular journalism.

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Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author.

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Gillian Baverstock

Gillian Mary Baverstock (née Pollock; 15 July 1931 in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England – 24 June 2007 in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England) was a British author and elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband, Hugh Pollock.

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Goblin

A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages.

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Golders Green Crematorium

Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain.

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Golliwog

The golliwog, golliwogg or golly is a black fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton that appears in children's books in the late 19th century and usually depicted as a type of rag doll.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital

Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

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Green Hedges

Green Hedges was Enid Blyton's home from 1938 until near her death.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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Hachette (publisher)

Hachette is a French publisher.

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Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Harmsen van der Beek

Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek (more commonly Harmsen van der Beek or just Beek; October 8, 1897 in Amsterdam – July 24, 1953 in Blaricum) was a Dutch illustrator and commercial artist.

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Head girl and head boy

Head boy and head girl are roles of prominent representative student responsibility.

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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress best known for her roles in low-budget arthouse and independent films to large-scale Hollywood productions.

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Hereford Museum and Art Gallery

The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum in the cathedral city of Hereford, Herefordshire, England.

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Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Homerton College, Cambridge

Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Hugh Alexander Pollock

Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock DSO (29 July 1888 – 6 November 1971) was a British publishing editor, who served as a soldier in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the First World War and in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the Second World War.

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Ida Pollock

Ida Julia Pollock, née Crowe (12 April 1908 – 3 December 2013), was a British writer of several short-stories and over 125 romance novels that were published under her married name, Ida Pollock, and under a number of different pseudonyms: Joan M. Allen; Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.

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Ipswich High School (Suffolk)

Ipswich High School (formerly Ipswich High School For Girls) is an independent school located since 1992 at the former campus of Woolverstone Hall School, Woolverstone, near Ipswich, England.

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Jacqueline Wilson

Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist who writes for children's literature.

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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer.

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Joel Chandler Harris

Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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King's Head Theatre

The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an off-West End venue in London.

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Kingsway, London

Kingsway is a major road in central London, designated as part of the A4200.

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Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball.

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Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger

Lena May Jeger, Baroness Jeger (née Chivers; 19 November 1915 – 26 February 2007) was a British Labour MP during two periods.

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Life of Jesus in the New Testament

The four canonical gospels of the New Testament are the primary sources of information for the narrative of the life of Jesus.

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List of children's literature writers

These writers are notable authors of children's literature with some of their most famous works.

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List of most translated individual authors

This page provides list of most translated individual authors to date sorted by the total number of translations.

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Major (United Kingdom)

Major (Maj) is a military rank which is used by both the British Army and Royal Marines.

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Malay Mail

The Malay Mail is a newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, first published on 1 December 1896 when Kuala Lumpur was the capital of the then new Federated Malay States, making it the first daily to appear in the FMS.

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Malory Towers

Malory Towers is a series of six novels by English children's author Enid Blyton.

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Margery Fisher

Margery Lilian Edith Fisher (née Turner) 1913–1992 was a British literary critic and academic.

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Maria Dickin

Maria Elisabeth Dickin CBE (nickname, Mia; 22 September 1870 – 1 March 1951) was a social reformer and an animal welfare pioneer who founded the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in 1917.

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Mary Mouse

Mary Mouse is a fictional character "imagined" by Enid Blyton, a prolific British children's author, in the mid 20th century.

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Michael Rosen

Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's novelist, rapper, poet, and the author of 140 books.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.

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National Froebel Foundation

The National Froebel Foundation (NFF) was a foundation which validated examinations and set standards for teaching training courses at kindergarten level in the United Kingdom.

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Nativity of Jesus

The nativity of Jesus or birth of Jesus is described in the gospels of Luke and Matthew.

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New Testament

The New Testament (Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, trans. Hē Kainḕ Diathḗkē; Novum Testamentum) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Nicholas Tucker

Nicholas Tucker is a British academic and writer who is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex.

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Noddy (character)

Noddy is a fictional character created by English children's author Enid Blyton, originally published between 1949 and 1963.

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Noddy Goes to Toyland

Noddy Goes to Toyland is a 1949 children's book by Enid Blyton, the first in the extremely successful Noddy series.

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Norse mythology

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.

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Nudity

Nudity, or nakedness, is the state of wearing no clothing.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God.

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Old Thatch series

The Old Thatch series is a book series by Enid Blyton.

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Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers was an American toy and game manufacturer which later became a brand of Hasbro.

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Peacock Theatre

The Peacock Theatre (previously the Royalty Theatre) is a theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Portugal Street, near Aldwych.

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Pediatrics

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents.

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People's Dispensary for Sick Animals

The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) is a veterinary charity in the United Kingdom.

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Peter Hunt (literary critic)

Peter Hunt (born 1945) is a British scholar who is Professor Emeritus in Children's Literature at Cardiff University.

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Phyllis Chase

Phyllis Chase, married name Phyllis Samuel (c.1897 – c.1977), was an English illustrator.

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Phyllis Hartnoll

Phyllis Hartnoll (22 September 1906, Egypt – 8 January 1997, Lyme Regis) was a British poet, author and editor.

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Pixie

Pixie (also pixy, pixi, pizkie, piskie and pigsie as it is sometimes known in Cornwall) is a mythical creature of folklore.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Resurrection of Jesus

The resurrection of Jesus or resurrection of Christ is the Christian religious belief that, after being put to death, Jesus rose again from the dead: as the Nicene Creed expresses it, "On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures".

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor.

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Rickmansworth

Rickmansworth is a small town in southwest Hertfordshire, England, approximately northwest of central London and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.

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Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe DL (26 January 1899 – 28 October 1962) was a member of the British aristocracy.

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Royal Mail

Royal Mail plc (Post Brenhinol; a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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Sam Mendes

Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director.

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Sanhedrin trial of Jesus

In the New Testament, the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus refers to the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin (a Jewish judicial body) following his arrest in Jerusalem and prior to his dispensation by Pontius Pilate.

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School story

The school story is a fiction genre centering on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Seckford Hall

Seckford Hall is a Tudor period house in Seckford Hall Road, Great Bealings, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.

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Seven Stories

Seven Stories - The National Centre for Children's Books is a museum and visitor centre dedicated to children's literature and based in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, close to the city's newly regenerated quayside.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

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Sherman Theatre

The Sherman Theatre is a venue in the Cathays district of Cardiff.

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Sky UK

Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom.

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Southern Television

Southern Television was the ITV broadcasting licence holder for the south and south-east of England from 30 August 1958 to 31 December 1981.

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Spanking

Spanking is a common form of corporal punishment involving the act of striking the buttocks of another person to cause physical pain, generally with an open hand.

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St James's Church, Piccadilly

St James's Church, Piccadilly, also known as St James's Church, Westminster, and St James-in-the-Fields, is an Anglican church on Piccadilly in the centre of London, United Kingdom.

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St. Clare's (series)

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Stephen Thraves

Stephen Thraves is a British children's author.

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Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Stoke Mandeville Hospital is a large National Health Service (NHS) hospital in Aylesbury, England.

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Studland

Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Sunday Graphic

The Sunday Graphic was an English tabloid newspaper published in Fleet Street.

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Sunny Stories

Sunny Stories was a children's magazine published by George Newnes in the United Kingdom in the first half of the 20th century.

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Surbiton

Surbiton is a suburban neighbourhood of south-west London within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (RBK) It is situated next to the River Thames, south west of Charing Cross and formerly part of the historic county of Surrey.

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Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.

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Teachers' World

Teachers' World was a British publication of the first half of the 20th century which featured a range of teaching material, poems and short stories for children.

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The Adventure Series

The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton, a prolific English children's author, is a series of eight children's novels.

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The Adventurous Four

The Adventurous Four is a series of novels written by Enid Blyton.

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The Barney Mysteries

The Barney Mysteries were a series of six children's books written by British author Enid Blyton.

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The Big Read

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel of all time.

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The Circus Series

The Circus Series is a three-book series by British children's author Enid Blyton.

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The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s.

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The Enchanted Wood (novel)

The Enchanted Wood is a children's novel written by Enid Blyton, the first in The Faraway Tree series.

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The Famous Five (1978 TV series)

The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton.

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The Famous Five (1995 TV series)

The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's book series of the same name by Enid Blyton.

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The Famous Five (novel series)

The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels written by English author Enid Blyton.

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The Faraway Tree

The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Island of Adventure

The Island of Adventure (published in 1944) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton.

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The Land of Far-Beyond

The Land of Far-Beyond is a children's novel written by Enid Blyton and published in 1942.

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The Londoner

The Londoner was a newsletter in the style of a newspaper published by the Mayor of London and delivered free to most households in Greater London, United Kingdom.

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The Magic Faraway Tree (novel)

The Magic Faraway Tree is a children's novel by Enid Blyton, first published in 1943.

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The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage

The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage is the first in the series of children's novels the Five Find-Outers by Enid Blyton.

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The Naughtiest Girl

The Naughtiest Girl is a series of novels written by Enid Blyton in the 1940s–1950s.

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The Naughtiest Girl in the School

The Naughtiest Girl in the School is the first novel in The Naughtiest Girl series by Enid Blyton, published in 1940.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.

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The Secret Series (Enid Blyton)

The Secret Series is a series of adventure novels written by Enid Blyton.

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The Secret Seven

The Secret Seven or Secret Seven Society is a fictional group of child detectives created by Enid Blyton.

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The Twins at St. Clare's

The Twins at St Clare's is a children's novel by Enid Blyton set in an English girls' boarding school.

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The Wishing-Chair (series)

The Wishing-Chair is a series of two novels by the English author Enid Blyton, and a third book published in 2000 compiled from Blyton's short stories.

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Tomboy

A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of a boy,, SpringerLink, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 31, Number 4 including wearing masculine clothing and engaging in games and activities that are physical in nature and are considered in many cultures to be unfeminine or the domain of boys.

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Tripos

At the University of Cambridge, a Tripos (plural 'Triposes') is any of the undergraduate examinations that qualify an undergraduate for a bachelor's degree or the courses taken by an undergraduate to prepare.

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TV Comic

TV Comic was a British comic book magazine published weekly from 9 November 1951 until 29 June 1984.

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Uncle Remus

Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was a British poet, short story writer and novelist.

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Whooping cough

Whooping cough (also known as pertussis or 100-day cough) is a highly contagious bacterial disease.

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William Collins, Sons

William Collins, Sons (often referred to as Collins) was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Woodbridge, Suffolk

Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, about from the sea coast.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia is the fear and distrust of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.

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Zenith Productions

Zenith Productions (later Zenith Entertainment) was a British independent film and television production company.

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References

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