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A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
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A38 road
The A38, part of which is also known as the Devon Expressway, is a major A-class trunk road in England.
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Abbot of Evesham
The Abbot of Evesham was the head of Evesham Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Worcestershire founded in the Anglo-Saxon era of English history.
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Act of Uniformity 1662
The Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Car 2 c 4) is an Act of the Parliament of England.
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Afore Night Come
Afore Night Come is a play by the British playwright David Rudkin, first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962.
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Alan Smith (footballer, born 1962)
Alan Martin Smith (born 21 November 1962 in Hollywood, Worcestershire) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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Andy Smith (darts player)
Andrew 'Andy' Smith (born 22 June 1967 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) is a darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Anna Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury
Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (née Lady Anna Maria Brudenell) (25 March 1642 – 20 April 1702) was Countess of Shrewsbury from 1659 to 1668, by virtue of her marriage to Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury.
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Anthony E. Pratt
Anthony Ernest Pratt (10 August 1903 – 9 April 1994) was a musician and the inventor of the English detective themed board game Cluedo, currently owned and marketed by American entertainment company Hasbro.
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Artrix, Bromsgrove
Artrix is an arts venue in Bromsgrove, England, located on School Drive just outside the town centre.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.
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Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings is an open-air museum of rescued buildings which have been relocated to its site in Stoke Heath, a district of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
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Bachelor of Fine Arts
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA, B.F.A.) is the standard undergraduate degree for students in the United States and Canada seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts.
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Barn Elms
Barn Elms is an open space in Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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Battle of Worcester
The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 at Worcester, England, and was the final battle of the English Civil War.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Benjamin Bomford
Benjamin Bomford was a prominent Worcestershire farmer in the mid-19th century.
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Benjamin Maund
Benjamin Maund (1790–1863) was a British pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller, fellow of the Linnean Society (1827) and publisher of the Botanic Garden and The Botanist.
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Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway was a railway route linking the cities in its name; it opened in stages in 1840, using a terminus at Camp Hill in Birmingham.
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Birmingham City F.C.
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England.
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Birmingham New Street railway station
Birmingham New Street is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in the Birmingham City Centre, England.
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Black Country
The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham, and commonly refers to all or part of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
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Black Death
The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
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Board game
A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.
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Brierley Hill
Brierley Hill is a small town and electoral ward of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England, and is situated approximately 2.5 miles south of central Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge.
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British Sub-Aqua Club
The British Sub-Aqua Club or BSAC has been recognised since 1954 by the Sports Council as the national governing body of recreational diving in the United Kingdom.
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Bromsgrove (UK Parliament constituency)
Bromsgrove is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2010 by Sajid Javid of the Conservative Party, who has been Home Secretary since 2018.
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Bromsgrove District
Bromsgrove is a local government district in Worcestershire, England.
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Bromsgrove Festival
The Bromsgrove Festival is a classical music festival, that has been held annually in Bromsgrove since it was founded in 1960 by Joe Stones, a violinist and the founder of the Bromsgrove String Orchestra.
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Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts
The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (1898–1966) was a company of modern artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, founded by Walter Gilbert.
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Bromsgrove railway station
Bromsgrove railway station serves the town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England.
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Bromsgrove railway works
Bromsgrove railway works was established in 1841 at Aston Fields, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England as a maintenance facility for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
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Bromsgrove Rovers F.C.
Bromsgrove Rovers F.C. were a non-League football club from the town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.
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Bromsgrove School
Bromsgrove School, founded in 1553, is a co-educational independent public school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England.
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Bromsgrove Sporting F.C.
Bromsgrove Sporting F.C. are a football club based in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.
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Burgess (title)
Burgess originally meant a freeman of a borough (England, Wales, Ireland) or burgh (Scotland).
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Caltrop
A caltrop (also known as caltrap, galtrop, cheval trap, galthrap, galtrap, calthrop, jackrock or crow's footBattle of Alesia (Caesar's conquest of Gaul in 52 BC)), Battlefield Detectives program, (2006), rebroadcast: 2008-09-08 on History Channel International (13;00-14:00 hrs EDST); Note: No mention of name caltrop at all, but illustrated and given as battle key to defend Roman lines of circumvaliation per recent digs evidence.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Catshill
Catshill is a village in Worcestershire about 2.5 miles north of Bromsgrove and 10 miles south-west of Birmingham.
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Charford
Charford is a small village located close to the town centre of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Charlotte Badger
Charlotte Badger (1778 – in or after 1818) Is an English born Australian woman, widely considered to be the first Australian female pirate.
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Chateau Impney
Chateau Impney Hotel & Exhibition Centre is a Grade II* listed 19th-century house built in the style of an elaborate French château near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England.
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Chavasse family
The Chavasse family in the West Midlands is a British family of Huguenot origin.
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Christopher Dyer
Christopher Charles Dyer CBE FBA (born 1944) is Leverhulme Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, England.
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Clemence Housman
Clemence Annie Housman (23 November 1861 – 6 December 1955) was an author, illustrator and activist in the women's suffrage movement.
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Clent Hills
The Clent Hills lie south-west of Birmingham city centre in Clent, Worcestershire, England.
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Cluedo
Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players that was devised by Anthony E. Pratt from Birmingham, England.
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Coarse fishing
Coarse fishing is a term used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for angling for coarse fish.
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Confederation of British Industry
The Confederation of British Industry is a UK business organisation, which in total speaks for 190,000 businesses, made up of around 1,500 direct and 188,500 indirect members.
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Conservative Future
Conservative Future (CF) was the youth movement of the Conservative Party in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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Court leet
The court leet was a historical court baron (a manorial court) of England and Wales and Ireland that exercised the "view of frankpledge" and its attendant police jurisdiction, which was normally restricted to the hundred courts.
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Craig Fagan
Craig Anthony Fagan (born 11 December 1982) is an English footballer.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).
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Dan Bull
Daniel G. L. Bull (born 27 March 1986) is an English rapper and songwriter known best for his raps about video games, which he publishes on his YouTube channel.
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David Haslam (Royal Navy officer)
Rear-Admiral Sir David William Haslam KBE CB (26 June 1923 – 4 August 2009) was a Royal Navy officer.
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David Rudkin
James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright of Northern Irish descent.
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Declan Fitzpatrick
Declan Fitzpatrick (born 12 July 1983) is an Irish former rugby union footballer.
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Deritend
Deritend is a historic area of Birmingham, England, built around a crossing point of the River Rea.
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Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
Digby Marritt Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham (born 28 October 1955), known as Sir Digby Jones between 2005 and 2007, is a British businessman and politician, who has served as Director General of the CBI (2000–06) and Minister of State for Trade and Investment (2007–08).
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Dodford, Worcestershire
Dodford is a village in the Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire, England, approximately west of Bromsgrove, officially founded on 2 July 1849 by members of the Chartist movement.
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Dodgy
Dodgy are an English power pop rock trio, that rose to prominence during the Britpop era of the 1990s.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.
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Droitwich Spa
Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich) is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe.
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Drumlish
Drumlish is a village in County Longford, Ireland on the R198 regional road north of Longford Town.
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Drury Lane
Drury Lane is a street on the eastern boundary of the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn.
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Dryad
A dryad (Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology.
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Dudley
Dudley is a large town in the county of West Midlands, England, south-east of Wolverhampton and north-west of Birmingham.
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Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.
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Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor (Ēadƿeard Andettere, Eduardus Confessor; 1003 – 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
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Edwin, Earl of Mercia
Edwin (Old English: Ēadwine) (died 1071) was the elder brother of Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, son of Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia and grandson of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.
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Elijah Walton
Elijah Walton (November 1832 – 25 August 1880) was an English artist.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.
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English country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.
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Ephemerality
Ephemerality (from Greek εφήμερος – ephemeros, literally "lasting only one day") is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly.
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Facies
In geology, a facies (pronounced variously as, or; plural also 'facies') is a body of rock with specified characteristics, which can be any observable attribute of rocks such as their overall appearance, composition, or condition of formation, and the changes that may occur in those attributes over a geographic area.
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Fair
A fair (archaic: faire or fayre), also known as funfair, is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.
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Father Brown
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.
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Feckenham Forest
Feckenham Forest was a royal forest, centred on the village of Feckenham, covering large parts of west Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
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First school
See infant school, junior school, or primary school and primary education.
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Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal.
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Football pitch
A football pitch (also known as a football field or soccer field) is the playing surface for the game of association football.
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Fortune Theatre
The Fortune Theatre is a 432-seat West End theatre on Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster.
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Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury
Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, 11th Earl of Waterford (1623 – 16 March 1668) was an English peer who was a Royalist officer in the English Civil War.
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Frieze (textile)
In the history of textiles, frieze (French: frisé) is a Middle English term for a coarse woollen, plain weave cloth with a nap on one side.
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Fyfe Dangerfield
Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins (born 7 July 1980) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the founding member of the indie rock band Guillemots.
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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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Gary Rowett
Gary Rowett (born 6 March 1974) is an English professional football manager and former player, who is the manager of Championship club Stoke City.
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Geoffrey Hill
Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.
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George Cadbury
George Cadbury (19 September 1839 – 24 October 1922) was the third son of John Cadbury, a Quaker who founded Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company in Britain.
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George Cross
The George Cross (GC) is the second highest award of the United Kingdom honours system.
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George Gilbert Scott
Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), styled Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.
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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros, (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet.
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George White (British Army officer)
Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White, (6 July 1835 – 24 June 1912) was an officer of the British Army.
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Gilbert Blount
Gilbert Blount (1819–1876) was an English architect working mostly for Catholic Churches.
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Gilbert Talbot (soldier)
Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, KG (1452 – 16 August 1517 or 19 September 1518) was an English Tudor knight, a younger son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and 2nd Earl of Waterford, and Elizabeth Butler.
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Governor of North Borneo
The Governor of North Borneo was the appointed head of the government of North Borneo.
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Grafton Manor
Grafton Manor (13 miles north-east of Worcester & 2 1/2 miles south-west of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) was established before the Norman Conquest.
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Great Ejection
The Great Ejection followed the Act of Uniformity 1662 in England.
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Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia
Gronau (Westf.) is a city in the district of Borken, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
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Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain.
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Hal Miller
Sir Hilary Duppa Miller (6 March 1929 – 21 March 2015) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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Hanbury Hall
Hanbury Hall is a large stately home, built in the early 18th century, standing in parkland at Hanbury, Worcestershire.
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Hanbury, Worcestershire
Hanbury is a rural village in Worcestershire, England near Droitwich Spa and the M5 motorway.
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Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D), or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1903.
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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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Heart of Worcestershire College
Heart of Worcestershire College is an academic institution with campuses at Malvern, Redditch and Bromsgrove.
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Henry II of England
Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, King of England and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also partially controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany.
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Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death.
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Henry VII of England
Henry VII (Harri Tudur; 28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was the King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 to his death on 21 April 1509.
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Hereford railway station
Hereford railway station serves the city of Hereford, England.
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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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History of Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.
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Hockey
Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.
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Housing estate
A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development.
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Hull City A.F.C.
Hull City Association Football Club is a professional football club in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Humphrey Stafford (died 1486)
Sir Humphrey Stafford was an English nobleman who took part in the War of the Roses on the Yorkist side.
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Hussar
A hussar was a member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Eastern and Central Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries, originally Hungarian.
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Ian Carmichael
Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English actor best known for his roles in the films of the Boulting brothers such as Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959).
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Independent school (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is an independent professional association, and learned society headquartered in central London, that represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession.
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Interregnum
An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order.
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J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
John Michael Wallace-Hadrill CBE, FBA (29 September 1916 – 3 November 1985) was a senior academic and one of the foremost historians of the early Merovingian period.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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James McConnell
James Edward McConnell (1815–1883) was one of the first locomotive engineers of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
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Jim Swire
Herbert Swire (born 1936), best known as Jim Swire, is an English doctor best known for his involvement in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which his daughter Flora was killed.
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Jimmy Davis (footballer)
James Roger William Davis (6 February 1982 – 9 August 2003) was a footballer who played for Manchester United, Royal Antwerp, Swindon Town and Watford, as well as the England youth teams, who was killed in a car crash on the M40 in Oxfordshire on 9 August 2003, aged 21, when twice over the drink-drive limit.
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John Corbett (industrialist)
John Corbett (bapt. 29 June 1817 – 22 April 1901) was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician of the Victorian era.
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John Hall (bishop)
John Hall (1633–1710) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Bishop of Bristol.
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John Lisseter Humphreys
John Lisseter Humphreys (21 September 1881 – 15 December 1929) was a British colonial administrator, and Governor of North Borneo from 15 October 1926 until his death while on leave in China in December 1929.
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John Talbot (died 1549)
Sir John Talbot (c. 1485 - 22 October 1542 or 10 September 1549) was an English Tudor knight and lord of the manor of Albrighton, Shropshire and Grafton, Worcestershire.
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John Talbot of Grafton
Sir John Talbot of Grafton, Worcestershire (1545 – 28 January 1611) was a prominent recusant English Catholic layman of the reigns of Elizabeth I of England and James I of England.
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John the Baptist
John the Baptist (יוחנן המטביל Yokhanan HaMatbil, Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστής, Iōánnēs ho baptistḗs or Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτίζων, Iōánnēs ho baptízōn,Lang, Bernhard (2009) International Review of Biblical Studies Brill Academic Pub p. 380 – "33/34 CE Herod Antipas's marriage to Herodias (and beginning of the ministry of Jesus in a sabbatical year); 35 CE – death of John the Baptist" ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲡⲓⲡⲣⲟⲇⲣⲟⲙⲟⲥ or ⲓⲱ̅ⲁ ⲡⲓⲣϥϯⲱⲙⲥ, يوحنا المعمدان) was a Jewish itinerant preacherCross, F. L. (ed.) (2005) Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed.
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John Vane
Sir John Robert Vane FRS (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004) was an English pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors.
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John, King of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland (Norman French: Johan sanz Terre), was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.
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Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer.
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Julie Kirkbride
Julie Kirkbride (born 5 June 1960) is a British Conservative politician.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Ladinian
The Ladinian is a stage and age in the Middle Triassic series or epoch.
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Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman (18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.
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Lickey Hills
The Lickey Hills (known locally as simply The Lickeys) are a range of hills in Worcestershire, England, to the south-west of the centre of Birmingham near the villages of Lickey, Cofton Hackett and Barnt Green.
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Lickey Incline
The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain.
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Linen
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.
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Linsey-woolsey
Linsey-woolsey (less often, woolsey-linsey or in Scottish English, wincey) is a coarse twill or plain-woven fabric woven with a linen warp and a woollen weft.
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Lisa Clayton
Lisa Lyttelton, Dowager Viscountess Cobham (born about 1958 as Lisa Clayton) is the first British woman to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world.
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Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.
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Lockerbie
Lockerbie (Locarbaidh) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, southwestern Scotland.
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Longbridge
Longbridge is an area of south-west Birmingham, England.
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M42 motorway
The M42 motorway is a major road in England.
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M5 motorway
The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands and the South West.
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Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
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Mark Williams (actor)
Mark Williams (born 22 August 1959) is an English actor, screenwriter and presenter.
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Market garden
A market garden is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants.
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Marl
Marl or marlstone is a calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and silt.
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Mathew Priest
Mathew Priest (born 3 April 1970 in Birmingham) is an English musician and writer, best known as the drummer for Dodgy, a British pop-rock band who rose to prominence during the 90s.
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Matt Teale
Matthew James "Matt" Teale (born 7 March 1975 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) is an English broadcast journalist with ITV, Forces TV, and Sky News.
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Medal bar
A medal bar or medal clasp is a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal.
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MG Rover Group
The MG Rover Group was the last domestically owned mass-production car manufacturer in the British motor industry.
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Michael Ball (singer)
Michael Ashley Ball, OBE (born 27 June 1962) is an English actor, singer and broadcaster, who is known for his work in musical theatre.
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Michael Buerk
Michael Duncan Buerk (born 18 February 1946) is an English journalist and newsreader, whose reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984 inspired the Band Aid charity record and, subsequently, the Live Aid concert.
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Middle school
A middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) is an educational stage which exists in some countries, providing education between primary school and secondary school.
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Midland Railway
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
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Midlands Rugby League Division Two
The Midlands Rugby League Division Two is a summer rugby league tournament in the Midlands region of England.
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Military Cross
The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.
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Minster (church)
Minster is an honorific title given to particular churches in England, most famously York Minster in York, Westminster in London and Southwell Minster in Southwell.
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MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker
In 1919, the Midland Railway built a single 0-10-0 steam locomotive, No 2290 (later LMS (1947) 22290 and BR 58100).
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Nail (fastener)
In woodworking and construction, a nail is a pin-shaped object of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration.
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Narrowboat
A narrowboat or narrow boat is a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of the United Kingdom.
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Network Rail
Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.
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Nicholas Evans
Nicholas Evans (born 26 July 1950) is an English journalist, screenwriter television and film producer and novelist.
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Nicola Charles
Nicola Charles is a British-Australian actress, known for her role as Sarah Beaumont in Australian soap opera Neighbours.
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin), administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.
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Noel Godfrey Chavasse
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, (9 November 1884 – 4 August 1917) was a British medical doctor, Olympic athlete, and British Army officer from the Chavasse family.
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Norman architecture
The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.
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Norris Locomotive Works
The Norris Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that produced nearly one thousand railroad engines between 1832 and 1866.
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North Bromsgrove High School
North Bromsgrove High School and Sixth Form Centre is located in the centre of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
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North East Worcestershire Ravens
North East Worcestershire Ravens, also known as NEW Ravens, are a rugby league club based in, Worcestershire.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Old 100th
"Old 100th" or "Old Hundredth" (also commonly called "Old Hundred") is a hymn tune in Long Metre from Pseaumes Octante Trois de David (1551) (the second edition of the Genevan Psalter) and is one of the best known melodies in all Christian musical traditions.
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Order of the Garter
The Order of the Garter (formally the Most Noble Order of the Garter) is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III in 1348 and regarded as the most prestigious British order of chivalry (though in precedence inferior to the military Victoria Cross and George Cross) in England and the United Kingdom.
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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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Our Father (British film)
Our Father is a 2015 British short war drama film written and directed by Calum Rhys.
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Pat Roach
Francis Patrick Roach (19 May 1937 – 17 July 2004) was an English actor, professional wrestler and author.
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Pearson's Magazine
Pearson's Magazine was a monthly periodical which first appeared in Britain in 1896.
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Points of the compass
The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.
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Poor relief
In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty.
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Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.
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Protectorate
A protectorate, in its inception adopted by modern international law, is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy and some independence while still retaining the suzerainty of a greater sovereign state.
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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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Recusancy
Recusancy was the state of those who refused to attend Anglican services during the history of England and Wales and of Ireland; these individuals were known as recusants.
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Redditch
Redditch is a town and local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately south of Birmingham.
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Richard Bromsgrove
Richard Bromsgrove (died 1435), was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Evesham.
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Richard Wattis
Richard Cameron Wattis (25 February 1912 – 1 February 1975) was an English actor.
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RMS Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship.
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Robert and Thomas Wintour
Robert Wintour (1568 – 30 January 1606) and Thomas Wintour (1571 or 1572 – 31 January 1606), also spelt Winter, were members of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed conspiracy to assassinate King James I. Brothers, they were related to other conspirators, such as their cousin, Robert Catesby, and a half-brother, John Wintour, also joined them following the plot's failure.
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Robert Sherard
Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist.
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Rod (unit)
The rod or perch or pole is a surveyor’s tool and unit of length equal to yards, 16 feet, of a statute mile or one-fourth of a surveyor's chain and 5.0292 meters.
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Rotary International
Rotary International is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
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Roy Thomason
Kenneth Roy Thomason, OBE (born 14 December 1944), known as Roy Thomason, is a British Conservative Party politician who was a local government leader and served one term as a member of parliament.
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Royal Liver Building
The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building in Liverpool, England.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Russell Williams (criminal)
David Russell Williams (born March 7, 1963) is an English-born Canadian criminal and former Colonel in the Canadian Forces.
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Saint Peter
Saint Peter (Syriac/Aramaic: ܫܸܡܥܘܿܢ ܟܹ݁ܐܦ݂ܵܐ, Shemayon Keppa; שמעון בר יונה; Petros; Petros; Petrus; r. AD 30; died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Great Church.
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Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin
Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
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Sajid Javid
Sajid Javid (born 5 December 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician and former managing director at Deutsche Bank.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Sarah Bache
Sarah Bache (1771? – 23 July 1844), was an English hymn writer.
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Sidemoor
Sidemoor is a village within the urban area of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
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Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet (29 September 1600 – 24 March 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
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Sister city
Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.
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Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final 1-3 years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.
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Slug and Lettuce
Slug and Lettuce is a chain of bars that operate in the United Kingdom, with a large number located in London and South East England.
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South Bromsgrove High School
South Bromsgrove High School (SBHS) is a co-educational, secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
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Specialist schools programme
The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement.
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St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove
The Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Bromsgrove.
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St John's CE Middle Academy, Bromsgrove
St John's CE Middle Academy, formerly 'St John's CofE Foundation Middle School', is a middle school located in the town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
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Stafford and Lovell rebellion
The Stafford and Lovell rebellion was the first armed uprising against King Henry VII after he won the crown at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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Standards and Privileges Committee
The Standards and Privileges Committee of the United Kingdom House of Commons was established in 1995 to replace the earlier Committee of Privileges.
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State school
State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.
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Stoke Prior, Worcestershire
Stoke Prior is a village in the civil parish of Stoke in Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire.
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Sunday Chronicle
The Sunday Chronicle was a newspaper in the United Kingdom.
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Swindon Town F.C.
Swindon Town Football Club is a professional football football club in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
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Tardebigge
Tardebigge is a village in Worcestershire, England.
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Telephone booth
A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience.
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Terry Davis (politician)
Terence Anthony Gordon Davis CMG (born 5 January 1938), known as Terry Davis, is a British Labour Party politician, and former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Birmingham Hodge Hill constituency, and former Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
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The Horse Whisperer (novel)
The Horse Whisperer is a 1995 novel by English author Nicholas Evans.
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Tolkien family
The Tolkien family is an English family whose best-known member is J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford academic and author of the fantasy books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
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Trainband
Trainbands were companies of militia in England or the Americas, first organized in the 16th century and dissolved in the 18th.
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Trevor Eve
Trevor John Eve (born 1 July 1951) is an English film and television actor.
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Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.
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Truck Acts
Truck Acts is the name given to legislation that outlaws truck systems, which are also known as "company store" systems, commonly leading to debt bondage.
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Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress, film producer and director.
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Tyburn
Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch and the southern end of Edgware Road in present-day London.
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United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal
The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009, concerning expenses claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over the previous years.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.
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Victorian restoration
The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria.
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Walter Gilbert (sculptor)
Walter Gilbert (1871–1946) was an English sculptor.
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Waseley Hills Country Park
Waseley Hills Country Park is a Country Park and Local Nature Reserve owned and managed by Worcestershire County Council's Countryside Service.
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Watford F.C.
Watford Football Club is a professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, that plays in the Premier League, the highest level in the English football league system.
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West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.
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Wetherspoons
J D Wetherspoon plc, branded as Wetherspoon, is a pub company in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
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White British
White British is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census.
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Wild boar
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine,Heptner, V. G.; Nasimovich, A. A.; Bannikov, A. G.; Hoffman, R. S. (1988), Volume I, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, pp.
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William Dugard
William Dugard, or Du Gard, (9 January 1606 – 3 December 1662) was an English schoolmaster and printer.
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William Moorsom
; Captain William Scarth Moorsom (1804–1863) was an English soldier and engineer.
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William Wells (minister)
William Wells (1744 – 27 December 1827), minister and farmer at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire; and at Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Woodcote
Woodcote is a village in the civil parish of South Oxfordshire, about southeast of Wallingford and about northwest of Reading, Berkshire.
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Worcester
Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford.
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Worcester and Birmingham Canal
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is a canal linking Birmingham and Worcester in England.
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Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England, situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn.
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Worcester Foregate Street railway station
Worcester Foregate Street railway station, opened by the Great Western Railway in 1860 in the centre of Worcester, England, is the smaller of the two stations serving the city, but more centrally located.
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Worcestershire
Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England.
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Worcestershire in the English Civil War
Worcestershire was under Royalist control during most of the first civil war.
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Worsted
Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromsgrove
