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1. 821 relations: A Kestrel for a Knave, A1 road (Great Britain), A1(M) motorway, A19 road, Abdullah Quilliam, Act of parliament, Advanced Manufacturing Park, Affordability of housing in the United Kingdom, Air Passenger Duty, Aire and Calder Navigation, Alderley Edge, Allerdale, Alnwick Castle, Amateur sports, Analytics, Andy Burnham, Anfield, Angel of the North, Angles (tribe), Anglicanism, Anglo-Scottish Wars, Angry young men, Animals in sport, Annals (Tacitus), Apron, Arable land, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Liverpool, Archbishop of York, Arctic Monkeys, Article (grammar), Asda, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Association football, Atherton, Greater Manchester, Augustinians, Æthelfrith, Bagpipes, Balance of trade, Bamber Bridge, Bangladesh, Baptists, Barrow-in-Furness, Baryte, Bassetlaw District, Battle of Hastings, Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Stamford Bridge, Battle of Wakefield, BBC North West, ... Expand index (771 more) » « Shrink index

2. Geography of England
3. Northumbria
4. Regions of England

A Kestrel for a Knave

A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968.

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A1 road (Great Britain)

The A1, also known as the Great North Road, is the longest numbered road in the United Kingdom, at.

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A1(M) motorway

A1(M) is the designation given to a series of four separate motorway sections in the UK.

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A19 road

The A19 is a major road in England running approximately parallel to and east of the A1 road.

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Abdullah Quilliam

William Henry Quilliam (10 April 1856 – 23 April 1932), who changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon, was a 19th-century British convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre.

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Act of parliament

An act of parliament, as a form of primary legislation, is a text of law passed by the legislative body of a jurisdiction (often a parliament or council).

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Advanced Manufacturing Park

The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) is a manufacturing technology park in Waverley, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

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Affordability of housing in the United Kingdom

The affordability of housing in the UK reflects the ability to rent or buy property.

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Air Passenger Duty

Air Passenger Duty (APD) is an excise duty which is charged on the carriage of passengers flying from a United Kingdom or Isle of Man airport on an aircraft that has an authorised take-off weight of more than 5.7 tonnes or more than twenty seats for passengers.

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Aire and Calder Navigation

The Aire and Calder Navigation is the canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in West Yorkshire, England.

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Alderley Edge

Alderley Edge is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Allerdale

Allerdale was a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria, England, with borough status.

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Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle is a castle and country house in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland.

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Amateur sports

Amateur sports are sports in which participants engage largely or entirely without remuneration.

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Analytics

Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics.

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Andy Burnham

Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017.

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Anfield

Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has a seating capacity of 60,725 making it the fifth largest football stadium in England.

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Angel of the North

The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Angles (tribe)

The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anglo-Scottish Wars

The Anglo-Scottish Wars comprise the various battles which continued to be fought between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland from the time of the Wars of Independence in the early 14th century through to the latter years of the 16th century.

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Angry young men

The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s.

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Animals in sport

Animals in sport are a specific form of working animals.

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Annals (Tacitus)

The Annals (Annales) by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14–68.

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Apron

An apron is a garment that is worn over other clothing to cover the front of the body.

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Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Archbishop of Liverpool

The Archbishop of Liverpool is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool and metropolitan of the Province of Liverpool (also known as the Northern Province) in England.

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Archbishop of York

The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury.

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Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002.

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Article (grammar)

In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases.

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Asda

Asda Stores Limited, trading as Asda and often styled as ASDA, is a British supermarket and petrol station chain.

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Ashton-in-Makerfield

Ashton-in-Makerfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south of Wigan.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Atherton, Greater Manchester

Atherton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and historically part of Lancashire.

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Augustinians

Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo.

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Æthelfrith

Æthelfrith (died c. 616) was King of Bernicia from c. 593 until his death around 616 AD at the Battle of the River Idle.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Balance of trade

Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period.

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Bamber Bridge

Bamber Bridge is a large village in Lancashire, England, south-east of Preston, in the borough of South Ribble.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Baryte

Baryte, barite or barytes is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4).

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Bassetlaw District

Bassetlaw is a local government district in north Nottinghamshire, England.

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Battle of Hastings

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

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Battle of Marston Moor

The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of 1639–1653.

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Battle of Stamford Bridge

The Battle of Stamford Bridge (Gefeoht æt Stanfordbrycge) took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.

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Battle of Wakefield

The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460.

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BBC North West

BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, North Yorkshire (western Craven), Derbyshire (western High Peak), Staffordshire (Biddulph), Cumbria (Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland) and the Isle of Man.

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BBC Yorkshire

BBC Yorkshire is one of the English regions of the BBC.

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BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, sometimes abbreviated to BBC Yorks & Lincs, is the name for the BBC's twelfth English Region, based in Kingston upon Hull and created from the division of the former BBC North region, based in Leeds (now known as BBC Yorkshire).

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Beat music

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Beer head

Beer head (also head or collar) is the frothy foam on top of beer and carbonated beverages which is produced by bubbles of gas, predominantly carbon dioxide, rising to the surface.

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Beetham Tower, Manchester

Beetham Tower (also known as the Hilton Tower) is a 47-storey mixed use skyscraper in Manchester, England.

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Benedictines

The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Bernicia

Bernicia (Bernice, Beornice) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England. Northern England and Bernicia are Northumbria.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed, sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England.

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Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer.

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Bessemer process

The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.

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Beverley

Beverley is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Billingham

Billingham is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England.

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Billy Liar

Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974.

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Bishop of Durham

The bishop of Durham is responsible for the diocese of Durham in the province of York.

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Black Country

The Black Country is an area of England's West Midlands.

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Blackburn Olympic F.C.

Blackburn Olympic Football Club was an English football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire in the late 19th century.

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Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the, the second level of the English football league system.

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Blackburn with Darwen

Blackburn with Darwen is a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, North West England.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.

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Blackpool Airport

Blackpool Airport is an airport on the Fylde coast of Lancashire, England, in the Borough of Fylde, just outside the Borough of Blackpool.

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Blackpool Tower

Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894.

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Blackpool Tramway

The Blackpool Tramway runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood on The Fylde in Lancashire, England.

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Blouse

A blouse is a loose-fitting upper garment that may be worn by workmen, peasants, artists, women, and children.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band formed in London in 1988.

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Bolsover District

Bolsover District is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.

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Bolton

Bolton (locally) is a town in Greater Manchester in England.

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Bolton Abbey

Bolton Abbey Estate in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England, takes its name from a 12th-century Augustinian monastery of canons regular, now known as Bolton Priory.

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Bootle

Bootle (pronounced) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011; the wider Parliamentary constituency had a population of 98,449.

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Border ballad

Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border.

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Borders of the Roman Empire

The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most notably the Rhine and Danube rivers) and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond.

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Boulby Mine

Boulby Mine is a site located just south-east of the village of Boulby, on the north-east coast of the North York Moors in Loftus, North Yorkshire England.

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Bowling (cricket)

Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batter.

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Boys from the Blackstuff

Boys from the Blackstuff is a five episode British drama television series, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2.

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Brick Community Stadium

The Brick Community Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Robin Park in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Brigantes

The Brigantes were Ancient Britons who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England.

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Britannia Inferior

Britannia Inferior (Latin for "Lower Britain") was a new province carved out of Roman Britain probably around AD 197 during the reforms of Septimius Severus although the division may have occurred later, between 211 and 220, under Caracalla.

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British brass band

In Britain, a brass band (known regionally as a silver band or colliery band) is a musical ensemble comprising a standardized range of brass and percussion instruments.

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British Cycling

British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation) is the main national governing body for cycle sport in Great Britain.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British National Party

The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, British fascist political party in the United Kingdom.

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British Summer Time

During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more.

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Brittonic languages

The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; yethow brythonek/predennek; and yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic.

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Brontë family

The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Brown ale

Brown ale is a style of beer with a dark amber or brown colour.

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Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club is a professional football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, England.

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Bury, Greater Manchester

Bury is a market town on the River Irwell in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

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Bus

A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.

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Bus deregulation in Great Britain

Bus deregulation in Great Britain involved the abolition of Road Service Licensing for bus services outside of Greater London.

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Byland Abbey

Byland Abbey is a ruined abbey and a small village in the former Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, in the North York Moors National Park.

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C. P. Scott

Charles Prestwich Scott (26 October 1846 – 1 January 1932), usually cited as C. P. Scott, was a British journalist, publisher and politician.

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Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire were an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.

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Call centre

A call centre (Commonwealth spelling) or call center (American spelling; see spelling differences) is a managed capability that can be centralised or remote that is used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of enquiries by telephone.

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Canal ring

A canal ring is the name given to a series of canals that make a complete loop.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Cantonese

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.

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Caratacus

Caratacus was a 1st-century AD British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who resisted the Roman conquest of Britain.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.

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Carlisle Lake District Airport

Carlisle Lake District Airport is a small airport located east north-east of Carlisle, England on a plain near the River Irthing.

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Carvetii

The Carvetii (Common Brittonic: *Carwetī) were a Brittonic Celtic tribe living in what is now Cumbria, in North-West England during the Iron Age, and were subsequently identified as a civitas (canton) of Roman Britain.

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Casual (subculture)

The casual subculture is a subset of football culture that is characterised by the wearing of expensive designer clothing and hooliganism.

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Catherine Cookson

Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (née McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998), was a British writer.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church in England and Wales

The Catholic Church in England and Wales (Ecclesia Catholica in Anglia et Cambria; Yr Eglwys Gatholig yng Nghymru a Lloegr) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See.

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Catterick, North Yorkshire

Catterick is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in North Yorkshire, England.

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Cavalier

The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.

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Cave painting

In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Celtic Christianity

Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.

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Central Belt

The Central Belt of Scotland is the area of highest population density within Scotland. Depending on the definition used, it has a population of between 2.4 and 4.2 million (the country's total was around 5.4 million in 2019), including multiple Scottish cities; Greater Glasgow, Ayrshire, Falkirk, Edinburgh, Lothian and Fife.

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Central Lancashire

Central Lancashire is an area of Lancashire, England.

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Ceremonial counties of England

Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Cheddar cheese

Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added), and sometimes sharp-tasting.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Cheshire cheese

Cheshire cheese is a dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire, and four neighbouring counties: Denbighshire and Flintshire in Wales, and Shropshire and Staffordshire in England.

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Cheshire Plain

The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland within the county of Cheshire in North West England but extending south into Shropshire.

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Chester

Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border.

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Chester Castle

Chester Castle is in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England.

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Chester-le-Street

Chester-le-Street is a market town in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.

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Child labour

Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.

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Children's literature

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

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Chinatown

Chinatown is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting.

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Chorley

Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester.

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Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is an English rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist from Middlesbrough.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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City of Manchester Stadium

The City of Manchester Stadium (currently known as the Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons) is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 53,600, making it the 7th-largest football stadium in England and 11th-largest in the United Kingdom.

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City status in the United Kingdom

City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the monarch of the United Kingdom to specific centres of population, which might or might not meet the generally accepted definition of cities.

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Clean Air Act 1956

The Clean Air Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 52) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted principally in response to London's Great Smog of 1952.

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Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes is a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England with a population of 29,678 in 2021.

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Cleveland Hills

The Cleveland Hills are a range of hills on the north-west edge of the North York Moors in North Yorkshire, England, overlooking Cleveland and Teesside.

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Clocking Off

Clocking Off is a British television drama series which was broadcast on BBC One for four series from 2000 to 2003.

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Clog dancing

Clog dancing is a form of step dance characterised by the wearing of inflexible, wooden soled clogs.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Cobblestone

Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.

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Cod Wars

The Cod Wars (Þorskastríðin; also known as Landhelgisstríðin,; Kabeljaukriege) were a series of 20th-century confrontations between the United Kingdom (with aid from West Germany) and Iceland about fishing rights in the North Atlantic.

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Common Fisheries Policy

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the fisheries policy of the European Union (EU).

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Connacht

Connacht or Connaught (Connachta or Cúige Chonnacht), is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Continental Europe

Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated.

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Corn Laws

The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846.

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Corner kick

A corner kick, commonly known as a corner, is the method of restarting play in a game of association football when the ball goes out of play over the goal line, without a goal being scored and having last been touched by a member of the defending team.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (colloquially referred to as Corrie) is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire

Cottingham is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Council of the North

The Council of the North was an administrative body first set up in 1484 by King Richard III of England, to improve access to conciliar justice in Northern England.

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County Championship

The County Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

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County cricket

Inter-county cricket matches have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales.

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County Durham

County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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Craven Park, Hull

Craven Park (currently known as the Sewell Group Craven Park Stadium for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby league stadium located in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Creswell Crags

Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell.

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Creswellian culture

The Creswellian is a British Upper Palaeolithic culture named after the type site of Creswell Crags in Derbyshire by Dorothy Garrod in 1926.

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Crewe

Crewe is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.

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Crosby, Merseyside

Crosby is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England.

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Cross Country Route

The Cross Country Route is a long-distance rail route in England.

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Cross Fell

Cross Fell is the highest mountain in the Pennines of Northern England and the highest point in England outside the Lake District.

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Cultural area

In anthropology and geography, a cultural area, cultural region, cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (culture).

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Cultural impact of the Beatles

The English rock band the Beatles, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are commonly regarded as the foremost and most influential band in popular music history.

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Cultural tourism

Cultural tourism is a type of tourism in which the visitor's essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume the cultural attractions and products offered by a tourist destination.

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Cumberland

Cumberland is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria.

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Cumberland sausage

Cumberland sausage is a pork sausage that originated in the historic county of Cumberland, England, ceremonially part of Cumbria.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Cumbria Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Cumbria, in North West England.

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Cumbrian dialect

Cumbrian dialect or Cumberland dialect is a local dialect of Northern England in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands.

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Cumbric

Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what became the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (now combined as Cumbria), and also Northumberland and northern parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands.

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Curry Mile

The Curry Mile is a nickname for the part of Wilmslow Road running through the centre of Rusholme in south Manchester, England.

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Cuthbert

Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (– 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.

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Daily Star (United Kingdom)

The Daily Star is a tabloid newspaper published from Monday to Saturday in the United Kingdom since 1978.

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Dandelion and burdock

Dandelion and burdock is a beverage originating and commonly consumed in the British Isles since the Middle Ages.

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Danelaw

The Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh; Danelagen; Dena lagu) was the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Date of Easter

As a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computation.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, and as UK Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from November 2023 to July 2024.

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Dazed

Dazed (Dazed & Confused until February 2014) is a bi-monthly British lifestyle magazine founded in 1991.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Deindustrialization

Deindustrialization is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially of heavy industry or manufacturing industry.

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Deira

Deira (Old Welsh/Deywr or Deifr; Derenrice or Dere) was an area of Post-Roman Britain, and a later Anglian kingdom. Northern England and Deira are Northumbria.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Derbyshire Dales

Derbyshire Dales is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.

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Designer clothing

Designer clothing is clothing designed by a particular fashion designer or licensed by a person or brand.

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Devolution

Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.

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Dewsbury

Dewsbury is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

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Dialect continuum

A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Doncaster

Doncaster is a city in South Yorkshire, England.

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Doncaster Knights

Doncaster Rugby Football Club are a professional rugby union club representing the city of Doncaster, England. The first XV are known as the "Doncaster Knights", and play in the RFU Championship. Being the most promoted side in English history has led to huge changes at the Castle Park ground and within the team structure.

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Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Doncaster Sheffield Airport, formerly named and commonly referred to as Robin Hood Airport, was an international airport in Finningley near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, in operation between 2005 and 2022.

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Dronfield

Dronfield is a town in North East Derbyshire, England, which includes Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston.

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Durham

Durham most commonly refers to.

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Durham Castle

Durham Castle is a Norman castle in the city of Durham, England, which has been occupied since 1837 by University College, Durham after its previous role as the residence of the Bishops of Durham.

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Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club (rebranded as Durham Cricket in February 2019) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Earl of Northumberland

The title of Earl of Northumberland has been created several times in the Peerage of England and of Great Britain, succeeding the title Earl of Northumbria.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is an area in the East of England. Northern England and East Anglia are regions of England.

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East Coast Main Line

The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a electrified railway between its northern terminus at and southern terminus at London King's Cross station.

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East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England. Northern England and East Midlands are regions of England.

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East of England

The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom. Northern England and East of England are regions of England.

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East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, often abbreviated to the East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Eboracum

Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia.

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Economic inequality

Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).

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Economy of England

The economy of England is the largest economy of the four countries of the United Kingdom.

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Edge Hill University

Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.

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Edict of Expulsion

The Edict of Expulsion was a royal decree expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England that was issued by Edward I 18 July 1290; it was the first time a European state is known to have permanently banned their presence.

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Electropop

Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles.

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Elision

In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Elland Road

Elland Road is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Championship club Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919.

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Elmet

Elmet (Elfed), sometimes Elmed or Elmete, was an independent Brittonic Celtic Cumbric speaking kingdom between about the 4th century and mid 7th century.

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Emmerdale

Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV.

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End of Roman rule in Britain

The end of Roman rule in Britain was the transition from Roman Britain to post-Roman Britain.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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England national football team

The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.

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English as a second or foreign language

English as a second or foreign language refers to the use of English by individuals whose native language is different, commonly among students learning to speak and write English.

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English language in Northern England

The spoken English language in Northern England has been shaped by the region's history of settlement and migration, and today encompasses a group of related accents and dialects known as Northern England English (or, simply, Northern (English) in the United Kingdom).

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Eruv

An eruv (עירוב,, also transliterated as eiruv or erub, plural: eruvin or eruvim) is a ritual halakhic enclosure made for the purpose of allowing activities which are normally prohibited on Shabbat (due to the prohibition of hotzaah mereshut lereshut), specifically: carrying objects from a private domain to a semi-public domain (carmelit), and transporting objects four cubits or more within a semi-public domain.

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Ethnic enclave

In sociology, an ethnic enclave is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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European Investment Bank

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union's investment bank and is owned by the 27 member states.

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European Regional Development Fund

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is one of the European Structural and Investment Funds allocated by the European Union.

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European Structural and Investment Funds

The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds, ESIFs) are financial tools governed by a common rulebook, set up to implement the regional policy of the European Union, as well as the structural policy pillars of the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Fisheries Policy.

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Euroscepticism

Euroscepticism, also spelled as Euroskepticism or EU-scepticism, is a political position involving criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration.

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Evening Chronicle

The Evening Chronicle, now referred to in print as The Chronicle, is a daily newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne covering North regional news, but primarily focused on Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding area.

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Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Exclusive economic zone

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

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Eyre & Spottiswoode

Eyre & Spottiswoode was the London-based printing firm established in 1739 that was the King's Printer, and subsequently, a publisher prior to being incorporated; it once went by the name of Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & co.

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FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in domestic English football.

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.

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Fat rascal

A fat rascal, closely related to the historical turf cake, is a type of cake, similar to a scone or rock cake in both taste and ingredients.

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Federmesser culture

Federmesser group is an archaeological umbrella term including the late Upper Paleolithic to Mesolithic cultures of the Northern European Plain, dating to between 14,000 and 12,800 years ago (the late Magdalenian).

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Fen

A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water.

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Ferret-legging

Ferret-legging was an endurance test or stunt in which ferrets were trapped in trousers worn by a participant.

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Financial services

Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.

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First English Civil War

The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket.

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Fish and chips

Fish and chips is a hot dish consisting of fried fish in batter, served with chips.

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Flat cap

A flat cap is a rounded cap with a small stiff brim in front, originating in Northern England.

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Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde.

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Fluorite

Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Forest of Bowland

The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however roughly half of the area falls into the area of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire).

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Fountains Abbey

Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Free trade

Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports.

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Freight transport

Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Fulwood, Lancashire

Fulwood is a suburb of Preston, Lancashire, England, in the northern half of the City of Preston district.

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Gary Cahill

Gary James Cahill (born 19 December 1985) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England.

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GCSE

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a range of subjects taken in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, having been introduced in September 1986 and its first exams taken in 1988.

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Gentlemen v Players

Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of cricket matches that began in July 1806 and was abolished in January 1963.

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Geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union

Three European Union schemes of geographical indications and traditional specialties, known as protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI), and traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG), promote and protect names of agricultural products and foodstuffs, wines and spirits.

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Geordie

Geordie is an English dialect spoken in the Tyneside area of North East England, especially connected with Newcastle upon Tyne, and sometimes known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine.

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Ginnel

A ginnel is a word in various Scottish and northern English dialects describing a fenced or walled alley between residential buildings that provides a pedestrian shortcut to nearby streets.

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Glacial lake

A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Glorious Twelfth

The Glorious Twelfth is the twelfth day of August, the start of the shooting season for red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica), and to a lesser extent the ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Glossop

Glossop is a market town in the borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, east of Manchester, north-west of Sheffield and north of Matlock.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Golborne

Golborne (pronounced or) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Golden Triangle (Cheshire)

The Golden Triangle (sometimes called the Footballer Belt) is an area of affluent small towns and villages in Cheshire, England.

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Graphene

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a honeycomb nanostructure.

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Grave goods

Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are items buried along with a body.

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Great Depression in the United Kingdom

The Great Depression in the United Kingdom also known as the Great Slump, was a period of national economic downturn in the 1930s, which had its origins in the global Great Depression.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.

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Great North Road (Great Britain)

The Great North Road was the main highway between England and Scotland from medieval times until the 20th century.

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Great North Run

The Great North Run (branded the AJ Bell Great North Run for sponsorship purposes) is the largest half marathon in the world, taking place annually in North East England each September.

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Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Greater Manchester Built-up Area

The Greater Manchester Built-up Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consisting of the large conurbation that encompasses the urban element of the city of Manchester and the metropolitan area that forms much of Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.

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Greggs

Greggs plc is a British bakery chain.

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Greyhound racing

Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track.

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Grimsby

Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England.

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Gurdwara

A gurdwara or gurudwara (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ gurdu'ārā, literally "Door of the Guru") is a place of assembly and worship for Sikhs but its normal meaning is place of guru or "Home of guru".

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Half marathon

A half marathon is a road running event of —half the distance of a marathon.

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Halite

Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Harald Hardrada

Harald Sigurdsson (– 25 September 1066), also known as Harald III of Norway and given the epithet Hardrada in the sagas, was King of Norway from 1046 to 1066.

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Hard water

Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water").

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Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson (– 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Harrying of the North

The Harrying of the North was a series of military campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–1070 to subjugate Northern England, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian, Anglo-Scandinavian and Danish rebellions.

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Headingley Stadium

Headingley Stadium is a stadium complex in Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Headscarf

A headscarf is a scarf covering most or all of the top of a person's, usually women's, hair and head, leaving the face uncovered.

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Health technology

Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives".

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Heavy industry

Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); or complex or numerous processes.

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Hen harrier

The hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) is a bird of prey.

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Hen Ogledd

Yr Hen Ogledd, meaning the Old North, is the historical region that was inhabited by the Brittonic people of sub-Roman Britain in the Early Middle Ages, now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands, alongside the fellow Brittonic Celtic Kingdom of Elmet. Northern England and Hen Ogledd are regions of England.

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Henry of Scotland

Henry of Scotland (Eanric mac Dabíd, 1114 – 12 June 1152) was heir apparent to the Kingdom of Alba.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Heritage tourism

Cultural heritage tourism is a form of non-business travel whereby tourists engage with the heritage, tangible and intangible, moveable and immovable, of a region through activities, experiences, and purchases which facilitate a connection to the people, objects, and places of the past associated with the locations being visited.

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Hessle

Hessle is a town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, west of Kingston upon Hull city centre.

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Hetton-le-Hole

Hetton-le-Hole is a town and civil parish in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.

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High Peak, Derbyshire

High Peak is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England, covering a high moorland plateau in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park.

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Highland

Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Hillsborough disaster

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989.

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Hindu temple

A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir, Devasthanam, Pura, or Koil, is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship, sacrifice, and prayers.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.

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History of the cooperative movement

The history of the cooperative movement concerns the origins and history of cooperatives across the world.

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Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is a British soap opera which originally began airing on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995.

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Home counties

The home counties are the counties of England that surround London. Northern England and home counties are regions of England.

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Home Nations

Home Nations is a collective term in sport, usually referring to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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Homophone

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.

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Honesty

Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness (including straightforwardness of conduct: earnestness), along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc.

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Houghton-le-Spring

Houghton-le-Spring is a town in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, North East England which has its recorded origins in Norman times.

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House of Lancaster

The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet.

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House of York

The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet.

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Housewife

A housewife (also known as a homemaker or a stay-at-home mother/mom/mum) is a woman whose role is running or managing her family's home—housekeeping, which may include caring for her children; cleaning and maintaining the home; making, buying and/or mending clothes for the family; buying, cooking, and storing food for the family; buying goods that the family needs for everyday life; partially or solely managing the family budget—and who is not employed outside the home (e.g., a career woman).

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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

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Huddersfield Giants

The Huddersfield Giants are an English professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Hull Daily Mail

The Hull Daily Mail is an English regional daily newspaper for Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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Hull Kingston Rovers

Hull Kingston Rovers (often abbreviated to Hull KR) are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England.

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Humanists UK

Humanists UK, known from 1967 until May 2017 as the British Humanist Association (BHA), is a charitable organisation which promotes secular humanism and aims to represent "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs" in the United Kingdom by campaigning on issues relating to humanism, secularism, and human rights.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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Humber Bridge

The Humber Bridge is a single-span road suspension bridge near Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Humber Refinery

The Humber Refinery is a British oil refinery in South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire.

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Humberside

Humberside was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996.

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Humberside Airport

Humberside Airport is an international airport at Kirmington in the Borough of North Lincolnshire, England, from three large settlements: Grimsby (east), Hull (north) and Scunthorpe (west), on the A18, the latter two places reached by longer roads, in the case of Hull via the UK's longest bridge that crosses the Humber Estuary.

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Hydropower

Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.

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Ice age

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice sheet

In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.

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Indian religions

Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Insular Celtic languages

Insular Celtic languages are the group of Celtic languages spoken in Brittany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man.

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Internet exchange point

Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of IP networking, allowing participant Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irish people in Great Britain

Irish people in Great Britain or British Irish are immigrants from the island of Ireland living in Great Britain as well as their British-born descendants.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.

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It's Grim Up North

"It's Grim Up North" is a song by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs).

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Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.

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Jack Sharp

John Sharp (15 February 1878 – 28 January 1938) was an English sportsman who is most famous for his eleven-season playing career at Everton from 1899 to 1910.

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Jaguar Land Rover Halewood

Jaguar Land Rover Halewood is a Jaguar Land Rover factory plant in Halewood, Merseyside, England, and forms the major part of the factory complex in Halewood which is shared with Ford of Britain who manufacture transmissions at the site, and who opened the site in 1962 as their Halewood Body & Assembly plant.

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Jarrow March

The Jarrow March of 5–31 October 1936, also known as the Jarrow Crusade, was an organised protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the English town of Jarrow during the 1930s.

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.

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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.

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Kaiser Chiefs

Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who originally formed in 1996 as Runston Parva, before reforming as Parva in 2000, and releasing one studio album, 22, in 2003, before renaming and establishing themselves in their current name that same year.

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KCOM Group

KCOM Group (formerly known as Kingston Communications and latterly KC) is a UK communications and IT services provider.

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Keighley

Keighley is a market town and a civil parish in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England.

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King's Manor

The King's Manor is a Grade I listed building in York, England, and is part of the University of York.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Kirklees

Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.

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Kirklees Stadium

Kirklees Stadium (currently known due to sponsorship as the John Smith's Stadium) is a multi-use stadium in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

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Kirkstall Abbey

Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England.

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Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire (or, from laissez faire) is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations).

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England. Northern England and Lake District are regions of England.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in English cricket.

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Lancashire hotpot

Lancashire hotpot is a stew originating in Lancashire in the North West of England.

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Lancaster Castle

Lancaster Castle is a medieval castle and former prison in Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire.

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Lancaster University

Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

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Lancaster, Lancashire

Lancaster is a city in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district.

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Language contact

Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other.

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Laws of the Game (association football)

The Laws of the Game are the codified rules of association football.

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Leading question

A leading question is a question that suggests a particular answer and contains information the examiner is looking to have confirmed.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Arts University

Leeds Arts University is a specialist arts further and higher education institution, based in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a main campus opposite the University of Leeds.

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Leeds Bradford Airport

Leeds Bradford Airport is located in Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, about northwest of Leeds city centre, and about northeast from Bradford city centre.

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Leeds Trinity University

Leeds Trinity University is a public university in Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds United F.C.

Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leicester

Leicester is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England.

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Leyland Trucks

Leyland Trucks is a medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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Leyland, Lancashire

Leyland is a town in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, 6 miles (10 km) south of Preston.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Life expectancy

Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

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Light rail

Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England.

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Lincolnshire Wolds

The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which run roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary in the north-west to the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east.

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Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.

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Lindisfarne Gospels

The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London.

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List of ministries of transport by country

A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country.

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List of sports rivalries in the United Kingdom

This is a list of the main sporting local derbies and other sports rivalries in the UK.

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List of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom

As of May 2024, there are 17 supermarket chains currently operating in the United Kingdom.

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List of urban areas in the United Kingdom

This is a list of the most populous urban areas in the United Kingdom based on the 2011 census, as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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Litherland

Litherland is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the first inter-city railway in the world.

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Liverpool Blitz

The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the English city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.

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Liverpool Built-up Area

The Liverpool Built-up Area (previously Liverpool Urban Area in 2001 and prior) is a term used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to denote the urban area around Liverpool in England, to the east of the River Mersey.

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Liverpool City Council

Liverpool City Council is the local authority for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool City Region

The Liverpool City Region is a combined authority area in North West England.

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Liverpool Echo

The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales – a subsidiary company of Reach plc and is based in St.

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Liverpool Hope University

Liverpool Hope University (abbreviated LHU) is a public university with campuses in Liverpool, England.

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Liverpool John Lennon Airport

Liverpool John Lennon Airport is an international airport in Liverpool, England, on the estuary of the River Mersey south-east of Liverpool city centre.

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Liverpool John Moores University

Liverpool John Moores University (abbreviated LJMU) is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, England.

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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, officially known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and locally nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam", is the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool in Liverpool, England.

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Liverpool Town Hall

Liverpool Town Hall stands in High Street at its junction with Dale Street, Castle Street, and Water Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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Long Parliament

The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660.

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Low-cost carrier

A low-cost carrier (LCC) or low-cost airline, also called no-frills, budget, or discount carrier or airline, is an airline that is operated with an emphasis on minimizing operating costs.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.

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M1 motorway

The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.

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M6 motorway

The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom.

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M62 coach bombing

The M62 coach bombing, sometimes referred to as the M62 Massacre, occurred on 4 February 1974 on the M62 motorway in northern England, when a 25-pound (11 kg) Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb hidden inside the luggage locker of a coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members exploded, killing twelve people (nine soldiers and three civilians) and injuring thirty-eight others aboard the vehicle.

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M62 motorway

The M62 is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield; of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester.

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Mackem

Mackem, Makem or Mak'em is a nickname for residents of and people from Sunderland, a city in North East England.

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Madchester

Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance scene.

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Mamucium

Mamucium, also known as Mancunium, is a former Roman fort in the Castlefield area of Manchester in North West England.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Manchester Airport

Manchester Airport is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, south-west of Manchester city centre.

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Manchester Aquatics Centre

The Manchester Aquatics Centre, abbreviated MAC, is a public aquatics sports facility south of the city centre of Manchester, England, north of the main buildings of the University of Manchester near Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Manchester Blitz

The Manchester Blitz (also known as the Christmas Blitz) was the heavy bombing of the city of Manchester and its surrounding areas in North West England during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.

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Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council is the local authority for the city of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England.

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Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England.

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Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England, founded in 1868.

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Manchester Liberalism

Manchester Liberalism (also called the Manchester School, Manchester Capitalism and Manchesterism) comprises the political, economic and social movements of the 19th century that originated in Manchester, England.

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Manchester Metrolink

Manchester Metrolink is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England.

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Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is located in the centre of Manchester, England.

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Manchester Ship Canal

The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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Manorialism

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London.

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Matriarchy

Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of responsibility, dominance and privilege are held by women.

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Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park are an alternative rock band from the U.K. Formed in 2000 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Maxim Brewery

Maxim Brewery is a beer brewing company based in Houghton-le-Spring, United Kingdom.

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Member of the European Parliament

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Merseyside

Merseyside is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England.

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Merseytravel

Merseytravel is the passenger transport executive, responsible for the coordination of public transport in the Liverpool City Region in North West England.

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Mesolithic

The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Metropolitan county

Metropolitan counties are a subdivision of England which were originally used for local government.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough is a town in North Yorkshire, England.

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Middlesbrough F.C.

Middlesbrough Football Club is a professional association football club based in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.

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Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Middleton Railway

The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railway, situated in the English city of Leeds.

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Midlands

The Midlands is the central part of England, bordered by Wales, Northern England, Southern England and the North Sea. Northern England and Midlands are regions of England.

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Military band

A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains.

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Millstone Grit

Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles.

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Molasses

Molasses is a viscous byproduct, principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar.

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Morrisons

Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited, trading as Morrisons, is the fifth largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Motown

Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.

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Movement for Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism, formally the Movement for Reform Judaism (MRJ) and known as Reform Synagogues of Great Britain until 2005, is one of the two World Union for Progressive Judaism–affiliated denominations in the United Kingdom.

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Municipal bus company

A municipal bus company is an operator of bus services owned by the local government authority.

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Mushy peas

Mushy peas are dried marrowfat peas which are first soaked overnight in water with baking soda, and then rinsed in fresh water, after which the peas are gathered in a saucepan, covered with water, and brought to a boil, and then simmered until the peas are softened.

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Music of Northumbria

Here Northumbria is defined as Northumberland, the northernmost county of England, and County Durham.

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N8 Research Partnership

The N8 Research Partnership is a partnership created in 2006 of the eight most research-intensive universities in Northern England – Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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National Grid (Great Britain)

The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network serving Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations, and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere on the grid can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere.

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National parks of the United Kingdom

National parks of the United Kingdom (parciau cenedlaethol; pàircean nàiseanta) are 15 areas of relatively undeveloped and scenic landscape across the country.

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Negative equity

Negative equity is a deficit of owner's equity, occurring when the value of an asset used to secure a loan is less than the outstanding balance on the loan.

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New Brighton, Merseyside

New Brighton is a seaside resort and suburb of Wallasey, at the northeastern tip of the Wirral peninsula.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.

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New Yorkshire

New Yorkshire was a musical movement identified by UK music magazine NME in 2005, in response to the success of Yorkshire bands such as Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs, and Kaiser Chiefs at the time.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport.

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Newcastle Brown Ale

Newcastle Brown Ale is a brown ale, originally brewed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Newcastle City Council

Newcastle City Council is the local authority for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.

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Newcastle Falcons

Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team that play in Premiership Rugby, England's highest division of rugby union.

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Newcastle International Airport

Newcastle International Airport is an international airport in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Newcastle United F.C.

Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Newcastle University

Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Newton-le-Willows

Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

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Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK

Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd (NMUK) is a British subsidiary car manufacturing plant in Sunderland.

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Non-denominational

A non-denominational person or organization is one that does not follow (or is not restricted to) any particular or specific religious denomination.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Norse funeral

Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age North Germanic Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians), are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas and Old Norse poetry.

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North and South (Gaskell novel)

North and South is a social novel published in 1854–55 by English author Elizabeth Gaskell.

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North East Derbyshire

North East Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.

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North East England

North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. Northern England and North East England are regions of England.

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North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire, England.

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North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire, England.

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North Midlands

The North Midlands is a loosely defined area covering the northern parts of the Midlands in England. Northern England and north Midlands are regions of England.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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North Tyneside

North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England.

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North Wales

North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is a region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas.

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North West England

North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. Northern England and North West England are regions of England.

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North York Moors

The North York Moors is an upland area in north-eastern Yorkshire, England.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England.

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Northallerton

Northallerton is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Northampton

Northampton is a town and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England.

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Northern soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Northumberland National Park

Northumberland National Park is the northernmost national park in England.

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Northumbria

Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland. Northern England and Northumbria are regions of England.

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Northumbria University

Northumbria University (legally the University of Northumbria at Newcastle) is a public research university located in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East of England.

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Northumbrian smallpipes

The Northumbrian smallpipes (also known as the Northumbrian pipes) are bellows-blown bagpipes from Northeastern England, where they have been an important factor in the local musical culture for more than 250 years.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Oat

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).

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Oatmeal

Oatmeal is a preparation of oats that have been de-husked, steamed, and flattened, or a coarse flour of hulled oat grains (groats) that have either been milled (ground), rolled, or steel-cut.

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Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Offal

Offal, also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organs of a butchered animal.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Old Trafford

Old Trafford is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United.

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Old Trafford Cricket Ground

Old Trafford is a cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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Oldham

Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, it lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester.

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Online shopping

Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app.

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Orange Order

The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland and primarily associated with Ulster Protestants.

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Ormskirk

Ormskirk is a market town in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England.

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Ostend

Ostend (Oostende,; Ostende; Ostende; Ostende, literally "East End") is a coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Oswald of Northumbria

Oswald (c 604 – 5 August 641/642Bede gives the year of Oswald's death as 642. However there is some question of whether what Bede considered 642 is the same as what would now be considered 642. R. L. Poole (Studies in Chronology and History, 1934) put forward the theory that Bede's years began in September, and if this theory is followed (as it was, for instance, by Frank Stenton in his notable history Anglo-Saxon England, first published in 1943), then the date of the Battle of Heavenfield (and the beginning of Oswald's reign) is pushed back from 634 to 633.

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Our Friends in the North

Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial produced by the BBC.

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Overfishing

Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.

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Owenism

Owenism is the utopian socialist philosophy of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen and his followers and successors, who are known as Owenites.

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Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the United Kingdom.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Package tour

A package tour, package vacation, or package holiday comprises transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a vendor known as a tour operator.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Parkin (cake)

Parkin is a gingerbread cake traditionally made with oatmeal and black treacle, which originated in Northern England.

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Parmo

Parmo, or Teesside Parmesan, is a dish originating in Middlesbrough, England, and a popular item of take-away food in the Teesside area.

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Parts of Lindsey

The Parts of Lindsey are a traditional division of Lincolnshire, England, covering the northern part of the county.

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Passenger transport executive

In the United Kingdom, passenger transport executives (PTEs) are local government bodies which are responsible for public transport within large urban areas.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of uplands mainly located in Northern England. Northern England and Pennines are geography of England.

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People's Republic of South Yorkshire

"People's Republic of South Yorkshire" or "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" were nicknames often given to South Yorkshire under the left-wing local governments of the 1980s, especially the municipal socialist administration of Sheffield City Council led by David Blunkett, used by both detractors and supporters of the councils.

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Percentage point

A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages.

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Personal Rule

The Personal Rule (also known as the Eleven Years' Tyranny) was the period in England from 1629 to 1640 when King Charles I ruled as an autocratic absolute monarch without recourse to Parliament.

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Peterloo Massacre

The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819.

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Phonological history of English close back vowels

Most dialects of modern English have two close back vowels: the near-close near-back rounded vowel found in words like foot, and the close back rounded vowel (realized as central in many dialects) found in words like goose.

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Pier Head

The Pier Head (properly, George's Pier Head) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England.

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Pigeon racing

Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance.

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Pilgrimage of Grace

The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular revolt beginning in Yorkshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and north Lancashire, under the leadership of Robert Aske.

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Pitmatic

Pitmatic (originally: "Pitmatical", colloquially known as "Yakka") is a group of traditional Northern English dialects spoken in rural areas of the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield in England.

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Plate glass university

A plate glass university or plateglass university is one of a group of universities in the United Kingdom established or promoted to university status in the 1960s.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pogrom

A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Port of Liverpool

The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.

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Potash

Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.

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Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.

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Prescot

Prescot is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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Preston North End F.C.

Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional association football club in Preston, Lancashire, England.

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Preston, Lancashire

Preston is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England.

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Prevailing winds

In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction.

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Primitive Methodism in the United Kingdom

Primitive Methodism was a major movement in English and Welsh Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932.

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Productivity

Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure.

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Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Province of York

The Province of York, or less formally the Northern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces making up the Church of England and consists of 12 dioceses which cover the northern third of England and the Isle of Man.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Public sector

The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises.

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Pulp (band)

Pulp are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978.

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Punjabi language

Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.

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Quintus Petillius Cerialis

Quintus Petillius Cerialis Caesius Rufus (AD 30 — after AD 83), otherwise known as Quintus Petillius Cerialis, was a Roman general and administrator who served in Britain during Boudica's rebellion and went on to participate in the civil wars after the death of Nero.

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.

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Rave

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music.

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Recusancy

Recusancy (from translation) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.

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Red brick university

A red brick university (or redbrick university) was originally one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England in the 19th century.

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Red Rose of Lancaster

The Red Rose of Lancaster (blazoned: a rose gules) was the heraldic badge adopted by the royal House of Lancaster in the 14th century.

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Redcar

Redcar is a seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast in the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority.

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Redcar and Cleveland

Redcar and Cleveland is a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Redcliffe-Maud Report

The Redcliffe-Maud Report (Cmnd. 4040) was published in 1969 by the Royal Commission on Local Government in England, under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud. Northern England and Redcliffe-Maud Report are geography of England.

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Reformed Baptists

Reformed Baptists, Particular Baptists and Calvinistic Baptists, are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation belief).

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Regional assembly (England)

The regional chambers of England were a group of indirectly elected regional bodies that were created by the provisions of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.

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Regionalism (politics)

Regionalism is a political ideology that seeks to increase the political power, influence and self-determination of the people of one or more subnational regions.

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Resettlement of the Jews in England

The resettlement of the Jews in England was an informal arrangement during the Commonwealth of England in the mid-1650s, which allowed Jews to practice their faith openly.

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Respiratory disease

Respiratory diseases, or lung diseases, are pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange difficult in air-breathing animals.

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RFL Championship

The Rugby Football League Championship, (known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the second highest division of rugby league in Britain (with one team in the league also being based in France) after the Super League.

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Rheged

Rheged was one of the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd ("Old North"), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages.

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Rhotic consonant

In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including r in the Latin script and p in the Cyrillic script.

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Rhubarb Triangle

The Rhubarb Triangle is a area of West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley, and Rothwell famous for producing early forced rhubarb.

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Rhyl

Rhyl (Y Rhyl) is a seaside town and community in Denbighshire in Wales.

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Richmond, North Yorkshire

Richmond is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Rievaulx Abbey

Rievaulx Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx, near Helmsley, in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England.

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Rising of the North

The Rising of the North of 1569, also called the Revolt of the Northern Earls or Northern Rebellion, was an unsuccessful attempt by Catholic nobles from Northern England to depose Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

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River Lune

The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a major river in North West England.

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River Tees

The River Tees, in England, rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines and flows eastwards for to reach the North Sea in the North East of England.

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River Trent

The Trent is the third longest river in the United Kingdom.

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River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in North East England.

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River Wharfe

The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

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Riverside Ground

The Riverside Ground, known for sponsorship reasons as the Seat Unique Riverside, is a cricket venue in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England.

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Robert the Bruce

Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Raibeart am Brusach), was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329.

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Rochdale

Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.

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Roll-on/roll-off

Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool

The Archdiocese of Liverpool (Archidioecesis Liverpolitana) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church that covers the Isle of Man and part of North West England.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham

The Diocese of Nottingham (Dioecesis Nottinghamensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in England and a suffragan of the Metropolitan Diocese of Westminster.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury

The Diocese of Shrewsbury (Dioecesis Salopiensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Province of Birmingham which encompasses the pre-1974 counties of Shropshire and Cheshire in the North West and West Midlands of England.

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Roman conquest of Britain

The Roman conquest of Britain was the Roman Empire's conquest of most of the island of Britain, which was inhabited by the Celtic Britons.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman legion

The Roman legion (legiō), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries.

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Roman roads in Britannia

Roman roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman army during the nearly four centuries (AD 43–410) that Britannia was a province of the Roman Empire.

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Room at the Top (novel)

Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about an ambitious young working-class man who juggles sexual relationships with two middle-class women in a northern town in post-war England.

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Rugby football

Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.

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Rugby Football League

The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for rugby league in England.

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Rugby Football Union

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the national governing body for rugby union in England.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Russell Group

The Russell Group is a self-selected association of twenty-four public research universities in the United Kingdom.

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Rust Belt

The Rust Belt, formerly the Steel Belt, is a region of the Northeastern, Midwestern United States, and the very northern parts of the Southern United States.

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Salford

Salford is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England.

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Samuel Smith Old Brewery

Samuel Smith Old Brewery, popularly known as Samuel Smith's or Sam Smith's, is an independent, British brewery and pub operator based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire that traces its origins to 1758, and claims to be Yorkshire's oldest brewery.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sankey Canal

The Sankey Canal in North West England, initially known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and later the St Helens Canal, is a former industrial canal, which when opened in 1757 was England's first of the Industrial revolution, and the first modern canal.

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Satellite city

A satellite city or satellite town is a smaller municipality or settlement that is part of (or on the edge of) a larger metropolitan area and serves as a regional population and employment center.

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Scafell Pike

Scafell Pike is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Scandinavian York

Scandinavian York or Viking York (Jórvík) is a term used by historians for what is now Yorkshire during the period of Scandinavian domination from late 9th century until it was annexed and integrated into England after the Norman Conquest; in particular, it is used to refer to York, the city controlled by these kings and earls.

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Scone

A scone is a traditional British baked good, popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scottish English

Scottish English (Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional class and the accepted norm in schools".

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Scouse

Scouse, more formally known as Liverpool English or Merseyside English, is an accent and dialect of English associated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region.

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Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe is an industrial town in the North Lincolnshire district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Seafood

Seafood is the culinary name for food that comes from any form of sea life, prominently including fish and shellfish.

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Seathwaite Fell

Seathwaite Fell is an area of the Lake District in Cumbria, England.

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Sellafield

Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England.

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Service economy

Service economy can refer to one or both of two recent economic developments.

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Shawl

A shawl (from شال shāl) is a simple item of clothing, loosely worn over the shoulders, upper body and arms, and sometimes also over the head.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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Sheffield Blitz

The Sheffield Blitz is the name given to the worst nights of German Luftwaffe bombing in Sheffield, England, during the Second World War.

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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Gill Furniss, a member of the Labour Party.

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Sheffield City Council

Sheffield City Council is the local authority for the City of Sheffield, a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield F.C.

Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Dronfield, North East Derbyshire.

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Sheffield Hallam (UK Parliament constituency)

Sheffield Hallam is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Olivia Blake of the Labour Party.

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Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield Rules

The Sheffield Rules was a code of football devised and played in the English city of Sheffield between 1858 and 1877.

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Sheffield Tramway

Sheffield Tramway was an extensive tramway network serving the English city of Sheffield and its suburbs.

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Sheffield urban area

The Sheffield Urban Area is a conurbation in the north of England with a population of 685,368 according to the 2011 census.

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Shibboleth

A shibboleth (šībbōleṯ) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another.

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Shipyard

A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (historically SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name. and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.

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Simon Armitage

Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist.

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Skirt

A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.

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Smog

Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution.

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Snickelways of York

The Snickelways of York, often misspelt Snickleways, are a collection of narrow streets and alleys in the city of York, England.

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Soap opera

A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.

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Social realism

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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Socialism

Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Soft drink

A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is any water-based flavored drink, usually but not necessarily carbonated, and typically including added sweetener.

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South Asian cuisine

South Asian cuisine, includes the traditional cuisines from the modern-day South Asian republics of Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, also sometimes including the kingdom of Bhutan and the emirate of Afghanistan.

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South Tyneside

South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) was the passenger transport executive for South Yorkshire.

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South Yorkshire Supertram

The South Yorkshire Supertram, sometimes referred to as the Sheffield Supertram, is a tram and tram-train network covering Sheffield and Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England.

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Southern England

Southern England, also known as the South of England or the South, is a sub-national part of England with cultural, economic and political differences from both the Midlands and the North. Northern England and Southern England are regions of England.

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Spiritualism (movement)

Spiritualism is a social religious movement popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, according to which an individual's awareness persists after death and may be contacted by the living.

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Spoiler effect

In social choice theory and politics, the spoiler effect or '''Arrow's paradox''' refers to a situation where a losing (that is, irrelevant) candidate affects the results of an election.

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Spoke–hub distribution paradigm

The spoke–hub distribution paradigm (also known as the hub-and-spoke system) is a form of transport topology optimization in which traffic planners organize routes as a series of "spokes" that connect outlying points to a central "hub".

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Sprachraum

In linguistics, a sprachraum ("language area", plural sprachräume) is a geographical region where a common first language (mother tongue), with dialect varieties, or group of languages is spoken.

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St Helens, Merseyside

St Helens is a town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 102,629.

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St James' Park

St James' Park is a football stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stanlow Oil Refinery

Stanlow Refinery is an oil refinery owned by Essar Energy in Ellesmere Port, North West England.

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Star Carr

Star Carr is a Mesolithic archaeological site in North Yorkshire, England.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Steelmaking

Steelmaking is the process of producing steel from iron ore and/or scrap.

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Stockport

Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield.

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Stockton and Darlington Railway

The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.

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Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census.

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Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of.

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Suburb

A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.

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Sui generis

Sui generis is a Latin phrase that means "of its/their own kind" or "in a class by itself", therefore "unique".

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Sunderland

Sunderland is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Sunderland A.F.C.

Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Surrey

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

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Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey CCC) is a first-class club in county cricket, one of eighteen in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Suspenders

Suspenders (American English, Canadian English), or braces (British English, New Zealand English, Australian English) are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up skirts or trousers.

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Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape.

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Synod of Whitby

The Synod of Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions. Northern England and Synod of Whitby are Northumbria.

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Tameside

Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, named after the River Tame, which flows through it, and includes the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer.

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Tees Transporter Bridge

The Tees Transporter Bridge, also referred to as the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge or locally as The Transporter, is a bridge over the River Tees in northern England. The northern side is in Port Clarence (Stockton-on-Tees) and the southern side is in Middlehaven (Middlesbrough). It is grade II* listed and the longest existing transporter in the world.

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Tees Valley

Tees Valley is a combined authority area in Northern England, around the lower River Tees.

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Teesport

Teesport is a large sea port located in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, Northern England.

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Teesside

Teesside is a built-up area around the River Tees in North East England, split between County Durham and North Yorkshire.

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Teesside International Airport

Teesside International Airport, previously Durham Tees Valley Airport, is a minor international airport located between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, Northern England.

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Teesside University

Teesside University is a public university with its main campus in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in North East England.

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Temperance bar

A temperance bar, also known as an alcohol-free bar, sober bar, or dry bar, is a type of bar that does not serve alcoholic beverages.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).

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Test cricket

Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at the international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom.

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The Anarchy

The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Co-operative Group

The Co-operative Group Limited, trading as Co-op and formerly known as the Co-operative Wholesale Society, is a British consumer co-operative with a group of retail businesses, including grocery retail and wholesale, legal services, funerals and insurance, and social enterprise.

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The Football Association

The Football Association or the FA is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The KLF

The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band who originated in Liverpool and London in the late 1980s.

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The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo is a regional daily morning newspaper based in the town of Darlington in North East England, serving mainly southern County Durham and northern Yorkshire.

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The Northern Way

The Northern Way was a collaboration initiated in February 2004 between the three northern regional development agencies (RDAs), Northwest Development Agency, One NorthEast and Yorkshire Forward at the instigation of the then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to focus on issues important for the whole of the North of England with a dimension larger than could be tackled by one region alone — for example, transport infrastructure, or marketing the North internationally.

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The Railway Children

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and published in book form in the same year.

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The Road to Wigan Pier

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911).

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The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.

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The Wash

The Wash is a shallow natural rectangular bay and multiple estuary on the east coast of England, United Kingdom.

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The Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

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Thirsk

Thirsk is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England; it is known for its racecourse, quirky yarn bombing displays and depiction as local author James Herriot's fictional Darrowby.

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Thorp

Thorp is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village.

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Thou

The word thou is a second-person singular pronoun in English.

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Throw-in

A throw-in is a method of restarting play in a game of association football when the whole of ball passes over the touchline.

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Tizer

Tizer is a red-coloured, citrus-flavoured soft drink bottled in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, and sold in the United Kingdom.

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Tonsure

Tonsure is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.

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Tony Blair

Sir 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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Toponymy of England

The toponymy of England derives from a variety of linguistic origins.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Trafford

Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, with an estimated population of in.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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Transport for Greater Manchester

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is a local government body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Trap–bath split

The – split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received Pronunciation), Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, South African English and to a lesser extent in some Welsh English as well as older Northeastern New England English by which the Early Modern English phoneme was lengthened in certain environments and ultimately merged with the long of PALM.

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Treaty of Ripon

The Treaty of Ripon was a truce between Charles I, King of England, and the Covenanters, a Scottish political movement, which brought a cessation of hostilities to the Second Bishops' War.

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Trent and Mersey Canal

The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England.

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Tripe

Tripe is a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals.

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Trolleybus

A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing..or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd.

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Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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Tyne and Wear Metro

The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear).

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Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive

The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, branded as Nexus, is an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee and is best known for owning and operating the Tyne and Wear Metro.

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Tyneside

Tyneside is a built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne in Northern England.

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UCI Continental Circuits

The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world.

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UEFA Euro 2016

The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2016) or simply Euro 2016, was the 15th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by UEFA.

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UK Independence Party

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom.

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United Reformed Church

The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom.

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University of Bolton

The University of Bolton, Bolton University or UoB (legally: The University of Bolton Higher Education Corporation) is a public university in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

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University of Bradford

The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Central Lancashire

The University of Central Lancashire (abbreviated UCLan) is a public university based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England.

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University of Chester

The University of Chester is a public university located in Chester, England.

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University of Cumbria

The University of Cumbria is a public university in Cumbria, with its headquarters in Carlisle and other major campuses in Lancaster, Ambleside, and London.

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University of Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield (informally Huddersfield University) is a public research university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Hull

The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a public research university in Liverpool, England.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.

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University of Salford

The University of Salford is a public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, west of Manchester city centre.

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University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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University of Sunderland

The University of Sunderland is a public research university located in Sunderland in the North East of England.

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University of York

The University of York (abbreviated as or York for post-nominals) is a public collegiate research university in York, England.

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Upton Park F.C.

Upton Park Football Club is an amateur football club from Upton Park, then in Essex but now part of the London Borough of Newham, in the late 19th and early 20th century, now defunct.

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Urbanization

Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.

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UTC+00:00

UTC+00:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +00:00.

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Varieties of Chinese

There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible.

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Video game development

Video game development (sometimes shortened to gamedev) is the process of creating a video game.

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (about) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America.

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Vimto

Vimto is a British mixed fruit soft drink containing the juice of grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants, flavoured with herbs and spices.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder.

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Warrington bombings

The Warrington bombings were two bomb attacks that took place during early 1993 in Warrington, Cheshire, England.

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Wars of the Three Kingdoms

The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, sometimes known as the British Civil Wars, were a series of intertwined conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, then separate entities united in a personal union under Charles I. They include the 1639 to 1640 Bishops' Wars, the First and Second English Civil Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1650–1652.

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Washington, Tyne and Wear

Washington is a town in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Wast Water

Wast Water or Wastwater is a lake located in Wasdale, a valley in the western part of the Lake District National Park, England.

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Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, concluding its original run on 9 March 2015, exactly nine years after the broadcast of the first episode.

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Watford

Watford is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne.

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Watford Gap

Watford Gap is a low-lying area between two hills in the English Midlands, near Daventry and the village of Watford in Northamptonshire.

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Wearside

Wearside is a built-up area in County Durham and Tyne and Wear, England.

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Welsh Marches

The Welsh Marches (Y Mers) is an imprecisely defined area along the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom. Northern England and Welsh Marches are regions of England.

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Wensleydale cheese

Wensleydale is a style of cheese originally produced in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, but now mostly made in large commercial creameries throughout the United Kingdom.

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West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow with branches to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh.

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West Country

The West Country (An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. Northern England and West Country are regions of England.

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of International Territorial Level for statistical purposes. Northern England and West Midlands (region) are regions of England.

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West of England

The West of England is an area of South West England around the River Avon. Northern England and West of England are regions of England.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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West Yorkshire Built-up Area

The West Yorkshire Built-up Area, previously known as the West Yorkshire Urban Area, is a term used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to refer to a conurbation in West Yorkshire, England, based on the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, and the large towns of Huddersfield and Halifax.

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West Yorkshire Metro

Metro is the passenger information brand used by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in England.

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Westerlies

The westerlies, anti-trades, or prevailing westerlies, are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.

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Westmorland

Westmorland (formerly also spelt WestmorelandR. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British Isles.) is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.

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Whippet

The whippet is a British breed of medium-sized dog, of the sighthound type, related to the larger greyhound and the smaller Italian greyhound.

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Whitby

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Whitby Abbey

Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey.

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White Rose of York

The White Rose of York (Latinised as rosa alba, blazoned as a rose argent) is a white heraldic rose which was adopted in the 14th century as a heraldic badge of the royal House of York.

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Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay is a seaside town in the North Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Wigan Warriors

Wigan Warriors are an English professional rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester.

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William the Conqueror

William the Conqueror (Bates William the Conqueror p. 33– 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an 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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Windermere

Windermere (sometimes tautologically called Lake Windermere to distinguish it from the nearby town of Windermere) is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District.

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Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.

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Wirral Peninsula

The Wirral Peninsula, known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England.

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Women's association football

Women's association football, more commonly known as women's football or women's soccer, is the team sport of association football played by women.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wynd

In Scotland and Northern England, a wynd is a narrow lane between houses.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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Yan tan tethera

Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain.

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York

York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.

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York Castle

York Castle is a fortified complex in the city of York, England.

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York Minster

York Minster, formally the "Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York", is an Anglican cathedral in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England.

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York St John University

York St John University (originally established as York Diocesan College), often abbreviated to YSJ, is a public university located on a large urban campus in York, England.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county.

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Yorkshire and the Humber

Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. Northern England and Yorkshire and the Humber are regions of England.

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Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales are a series of valleys, or dales, in the Pennines, an upland range in England.

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Yorkshire dialect

Yorkshire dialect (also known as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke, Yorkie, or Yorkshire English) is a dialect of English, or a geographic grouping of several dialects, spoken in the Yorkshire region of Northern England.

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Yorkshire Evening Post

The Yorkshire Evening Post is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Yorkshire pudding

Yorkshire pudding is a baked pudding made from a batter of eggs, flour, and milk or water.

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Yorkshire Tea

Yorkshire Tea is a black tea blend produced by the Bettys & Taylors Group since 1977.

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Yorkshire Wolds

The Yorkshire Wolds are hills in the counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire in Northern England.

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1851 United Kingdom census

The United Kingdom Census of 1851 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 30 March 1851, and was the second of the UK censuses to include details of household members.

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1926 United Kingdom general strike

The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted nine days, from 4 to 12 May 1926.

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1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike

The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent closures of pits that the government deemed "uneconomic" in the coal industry, which had been nationalised in 1947.

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1996 Manchester bombing

The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 15 June 1996.

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2001 Bradford riots

The Bradford Riots were a brief period of violent rioting which began on 7 July 2001, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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2002 Commonwealth Games

The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002, was an international multi-sport event for the members of the Commonwealth held in Manchester, England, from 25 July to 4 August 2002.

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2004 North East England devolution referendum

The North East England devolution referendum was an all postal ballot referendum that took place on 4 November 2004 throughout North East England on whether or not to establish an elected assembly for the region.

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3G

3G is the third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology.

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4G

4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology, succeeding 3G and preceding 5G.

See Northern England and 4G

See also

Geography of England

• Administrative divisions of England
• Antonine Itinerary
• Arc Manche
• Beautiful England
• British wildwood
• Climate of England
• Counties of England
• Craig Leith (hill)
• Demographics of England
• Districts of England
• England's Gazetteer
• English toponymy
• Five Boroughs of the Danelaw
• Flendish Hundred
• Gardens in England
• Geography of England
• Geology of England
• Golden logistics triangle
• Indices of deprivation 2004
• Indices of deprivation 2010
• Lindley Hall Farm
• Linn (geology)
• List of places in England
• National Address Gazetteer
• National Character Area
• National Street Gazetteer
• Natural areas of England
• Natural regions of England
• North–South divide in England
• Northern England
• Paris meridian
• Pennines
• Redcliffe-Maud Report
• Royal Sovereign shoal
• Severn-Trent flyway
• State of the English Cities

Northumbria

• Anglo-Saxon Diocese of Whithorn
• Bernicia
• Council of Austerfield
• Deira
• Durham Liber Vitae
• Hallamshire
• Hepburn (surname)
• Hexhamshire
• Historia de Sancto Cuthberto
• History of Edinburgh
• Liber beatae Gregorii papae
• List of monarchs of Northumbria
• Lothian
• Northern England
• Northern Independence Party
• Northumbria
• Northumbria (modern)
• Northumbria's Golden Age
• Northumbrian
• Northumbrian Old English
• Northumbrian Revolt of 1065
• Priors of Durham
• Robert Nicholson (piper)
• Scottish Borders
• Synod of Whitby
• Talnotrie Hoard
• Vita Sancti Cuthberti
• Vita Sancti Wilfrithi
• William Weaver Tomlinson

Regions of England

• Devonwall
• East Anglia
• East Midlands
• East of England
• Furness
• Greater London
• Hen Ogledd
• Historical and alternative regions of England
• Home counties
• Lake District
• London metropolitan area
• M4 corridor
• Mercia
• Midlands
• NUTS 1 statistical regions of England
• North East England
• North Midlands
• North West England
• Northern England
• Northumbria
• Oxford–Cambridge Arc
• Regions of England
• South East England
• South Midlands
• South West England
• Southern England
• Stockbroker Belt
• Threefold division of England
• Welsh Marches
• Wessex
• West Cornwall (UK region)
• West Country
• West Midlands (region)
• West of England
• Yorkshire and the Humber

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England

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