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A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
List of A roads in zone 1 in Great Britain beginning north of the Thames, east of the A1 (roads beginning with 1).
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A Thin Ghost and Others
A Thin Ghost and Others is M. R. James' third collection of ghost stories, published in 1919.
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A1 road (Great Britain)
The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK, at.
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About a Boy (film)
About a Boy is a 2002 British romantic comedy-drama film produced by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Brad Epstein, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, co-written and directed by brothers Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz with music by Badly Drawn Boy and written by Peter Hedges.
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About a Boy (novel)
About a Boy is a 1998 coming of age novel written by British writer Nick Hornby which has sold over a million copies.
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African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.
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Aldersgate
Aldersgate is a Ward of the City of London, named after a gate in the ancient London Wall around the City.
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Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325-seat studio theatre with an international reputation, which takes its name from the street on which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington.
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Angel tube station
Angel is a London Underground station in the Angel area of the London Borough of Islington.
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Angel, London
Angel is an area in Central London, England, within the London Borough of Islington.
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Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
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Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.
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B. C. Stephenson
Benjamin Charles Stephenson or B. C. Stephenson (1839 – 22 January 1906) was an English dramatist, lyricist and librettist.
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Barnsbury
Barnsbury is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington, in the N1 postal district.
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Bishop of London
The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.
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Blair–Brown deal
The Blair–Brown deal (or Granita Pact) was a gentlemen's agreement struck between the British Labour Party politicians Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in May 1994, while they were Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer respectively.
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Caledonian Road, London
The Caledonian Road passes for about a mile and a half north-south through the London Borough of Islington.
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Camden Passage
Camden Passage off Upper Street in the London Borough of Islington, minutes from Angel tube station is a picturesque car free London street.
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Canonbury
Canonbury is a residential district in the London Borough of Islington in the north of London.
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Charles Barry
Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.
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Charlie Higson
Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson (born 3 July 1958) is an English actor, comedian, author, and former singer.
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City of London
The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.
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City Road
City Road or The City Road is a road that runs through inner north and central London.
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Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is the statutory corporation which oversees and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the United Kingdom.
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Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell is an area of central and north London, England.
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Crafts Council
The Crafts Council is the national development agency for contemporary craft in the United Kingdom, and is funded by Arts Council England.
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Dalston
Dalston is a district of East London, England, north east of Charing Cross.
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Daniel Lysons
Daniel Lysons (1762–1834) was an English antiquarian and topographer, who published amongst other works the four-volume Environs of London (1792–96).
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De Beauvoir Town
De Beauvoir Town is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Hackney, north of the City of London.
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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
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Downland
A downland is an area of open chalk hills.
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Drovers' road
A drovers' road, drove or droveway is a route for droving livestock on foot from one place to another, such as to market or between summer and winter pasture (see transhumance).
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Emirates Stadium
The Emirates Stadium (known as Ashburton Grove prior to sponsorship, and as Arsenal Stadium for UEFA competitions) is a football stadium in Holloway, London, England, and the home of Arsenal F.C..
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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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Escalator
An escalator is a type of vertical transportation in the form of a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building.
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Essex Road railway station
Essex Road is a National Rail station in Canonbury, north London.
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Euston Road
Euston Road is a road in Central London that runs from Marylebone Road to King's Cross.
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Facade
A facade (also façade) is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front.
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Farringdon station
Farringdon is a London Underground and connected main line National Rail station in Clerkenwell, in the London Borough of Islington, just outside the City of London.
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Finsbury
Finsbury is a district of Central London, England.
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Gentrification
Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.
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George Formby
George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth; 26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961), was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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George Robey
Sir George Edward Wade, CBE (20 September 1869 – 29 November 1954),Harding, James.
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Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
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Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.
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Gracie Fields
Dame Gracie Fields, (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was an English actress, singer and comedian and star of both cinema and music hall.
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Great North Road (Great Britain)
The Great North Road was the main highway between London and Scotland.
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Greater London
Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.
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Harry Lauder
Sir Henry Lauder (4 August 1870 – 26 February 1950)Russell, Dave.
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy book written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series.
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Harry Tate
Ronald Macdonald Hutchison (4 July 1872 - 14 February 1940), professionally known as Harry Tate, was an English comedian who performed both in the music halls and in films.
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Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.
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High Street
High Street (or the High Street, also High Road) is a metonym for the concept (and frequently the street name) of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations.
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Highbury
Highbury is a district in North London and part of the London Borough of Islington.
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Highbury & Islington station
Highbury & Islington is a London Underground and National Rail interchange station in the London Borough of Islington, north London.
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Highgate
Highgate is a suburban area of north London at the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath, north north-west of Charing Cross.
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Holloway, London
Holloway is an inner-city district of the London Borough of Islington, north of Charing Cross, which follows the line of the Holloway Road (A1).
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Hope and Anchor, Islington
Hope and Anchor is a pub on Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington which first opened its doors in 1880.
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Hoxton
Hoxton is an area of East London, part of the London Borough of Hackney, England.
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Hugh Myddelton
Sir Hugh Myddelton (or Middleton), 1st Baronet (1560 – 10 December 1631) was a Welsh clothmaker, entrepreneur, mine-owner, goldsmith, banker and self-taught engineer.
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Inn
Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging and, usually, food and drink.
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Inner London
Inner London is the name for the group of London boroughs which form the interior part of Greater London and are surrounded by Outer London.
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Ironmonger Row Baths
Ironmonger Row Baths were built as a public wash house and later upgraded to a Turkish Bath.
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Islington
Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.
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Islington Green
Islington Green is a small triangle of open land at the convergence of Upper Street and Essex Road (once called Lower Street) in the London Borough of Islington.
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Islington Local History Centre
Islington Local History Centre is a local studies centre and archive which holds material documenting the history of the London Borough of Islington.
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Islington Museum
Islington Museum is a public museum dedicated to the history of the London Borough of Islington.
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Islington South and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Islington South and Finsbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Emily Thornberry of the Labour Party.
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Islington Studios
Islington Studios often known as Gainsborough Studios were a British film studio located on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London between 1919 and 1949.
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J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.
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King's Cross St. Pancras tube station
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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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Kings Cross, London
Kings Cross is an inner city district in north London, England, 2.5 miles (4.8 km) north west of Charing Cross.
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Limehouse
Limehouse is a district in east London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters
The following is an alphabetical list of the minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.
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List of people from the London Borough of Islington
Among those who were born in the London Borough of Islington, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (alphabetical order).
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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Little Angel Theatre
Little Angel Theatre is a puppet theatre for children and their families based in the London Borough of Islington.
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Liverpool Road
Liverpool Road is located in the London Borough of Islington of inner north London.
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London Borough of Islington
The London Borough of Islington is a London borough in Inner London, England.
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London County Council
London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected.
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London King's Cross railway station
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a Central London railway terminus on the northern edge of the city.
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London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
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M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who published under the name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36).
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Manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.
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Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic.
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Marie Lloyd
Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd; was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress.
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Market Estate
Market Estate is a public housing estate consisting of 271 flats and maisonettes situated to the north of Caledonian Park in the London Borough of Islington.
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Martha Grimes
Martha Grimes (born May 2, 1931) is an American writer of detective fiction.
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Metropolitan Borough of Islington
Islington was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London, England.
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Middlesex
Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.
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Mount Pleasant Mail Centre
The Mount Pleasant Mail Centre (often shortened as Mount Pleasant, known internally as the Mount and officially known as the London Central Mail Centre) is a mail centre operated by Royal Mail in London, England.
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.
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Neverwhere (novel)
Neverwhere is the companion novelisation written by English author Neil Gaiman of the television serial Neverwhere, by Gaiman and Lenny Henry.
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New Labour
New Labour refers to a period in the history of the British Labour Party from the late-1990s until 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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New River (England)
The New River is an artificial waterway in England, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water taken from the River Lea and from Chadwell Springs and Amwell Springs (which ceased to flow by the end of the nineteenth century), and other springs and wells along its course.
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Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer and lyricist.
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Norman Wisdom
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character that was often called Norman Pitkin.
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Notes on a Scandal
Notes on a Scandal (What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal in the U.S.) is a 2003 novel by Zoë Heller.
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Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation)
The Order of the Phoenix is a secret organisation in the Harry Potter series of fiction books written by J. K. Rowling.
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Otherwise Engaged
Otherwise Engaged is a bleakly comic play by English playwright Simon Gray.
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.
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Peacock Inn, Islington
The Peacock Inn is a former public house at 11 Islington High Street, London, that dates from 1564.
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Pentonville
Pentonville is an area on the northern fringe of Central London.
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Personal name
A personal name or full name is the set of names by which an individual is known and that can be recited as a word-group, with the understanding that, taken together, they all relate to that one individual.
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Pub
A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom provided the majority of rented accommodation in the country until 2011.
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Regent's Canal
Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just north of central London, England.
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Richard Jury
Richard Jury is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels written by Martha Grimes.
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River Lea
The River Lea in England originates in Leagrave, Luton in the Chiltern Hills and flows generally southeast, east, and then south through east London where it meets the River Thames, the last looping section being known as Bow Creek.
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Roman Britain
Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.
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Royal Agricultural Hall
The Business Design Centre is a Grade II listed building, which was originally opened as the Royal Agricultural Hall in 1862 in the district of Islington in London, England, for holding agricultural shows.
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Royal Tournament
The Royal Tournament was the world's largest military tattoo and pageant, held by the British Armed Forces annually between 1880 and 1999.
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Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 (or 25) February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist.
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Rugby School
Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
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Sadler's Wells Theatre
Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue.
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Saxons
The Saxons (Saxones, Sachsen, Seaxe, Sahson, Sassen, Saksen) were a Germanic people whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany.
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Simon Gray
Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years.
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Skiing
Skiing can be a means of transport, a recreational activity or a competitive winter sport in which the participant uses skis to glide on snow.
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Smithfield Show
The Smithfield Show, formerly the Smithfield Club Cattle Show and later the Royal Smithfield Show, was an annual British agricultural show, organised by the Royal Smithfield Club.
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Smithfield, London
Smithfield is a locality in the ward of Farringdon Without situated at the City of London's northwest in central London, England.
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Southgate Road
Southgate Road is a street in London, England, that runs from Baring Street in the south to the junction with Mildmay Park and Ball's Pond Road in the north.
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St James' Church, Islington
St James' Church, Islington is a parish church in the inner London borough of Islington.
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St Luke's, London
St Luke's is a neighbourhood and former civil parish in central London in the London Borough of Islington.
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St Mary's Church, Islington
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the historic parish church of Islington, in the Church of England Diocese of London.
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St Pancras railway station
St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.
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St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London.
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Terraced house
In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.
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The Angel, Islington
The Angel, Islington is a historic landmark and a series of buildings that have stood on the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road in Islington, London, England.
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The Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
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The Dead (Higson novel)
The Dead is a novel written by Charlie Higson.
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The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.
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The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion.
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The Zoo
The Zoo is a one-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by B. C. Stephenson, writing under the pen name of Bolton Rowe.
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Tom Brown's School Days
Tom Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby) is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes.
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Tommy Handley
Thomas Reginald "Tommy" Handley (17 January 1892 – 9 January 1949) was a British comedian, mainly known for the BBC radio programme It's That Man Again ("ITMA").
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Tommy Trinder
Thomas Edward Trinder CBE (24 March 1909 – 10 July 1989), known as Tommy Trinder, was an English stage, screen and radio comedian of the pre- and post-war years whose catchphrase was 'You lucky people'.
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.
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Union Chapel, Islington
Union Chapel is a working church, live entertainment venue and charity drop-in centre for the homeless in Islington, London, England.
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United Kingdom general election, 1997
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997, five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.
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Upper Street
Upper Street is the main shopping street of the Islington district of inner north London, and carries the A1 road.
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Vesta Tilley
Matilda Alice Powles (13 May 1864 – 16 September 1952), was an English music hall performer who adopted, at age 11, the stage name Vesta Tilley and who became one of the most famous male impersonators of her era.
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Victoria line
The Victoria line is a London Underground line that runs between in south London and in the north-east, via the West End.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Zoë Heller
Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist.
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1982 bombing of the African National Congress headquarters in London
The London offices of the African National Congress (ANC) were wrecked by an bomb which exploded against the rear wall at 9 am on 14 March 1982.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington
