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List of topics related to the United Kingdom

This is a list of topics related to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom category contains a more comprehensive selection of UK articles.

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Geography and the environment

• British Isles
  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
• United Kingdom
  • England
  • Scotland
  • Wales
  • Northern Ireland
• Republic of Ireland (not part of the United Kingdom)
• Isle of Man (Crown Dependency)
• Channel Islands (Crown Dependencies)
  • Jersey
  • Guernsey
  • Alderney
  • Sark

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Geography of the United Kingdom

Main article: Geography of the United Kingdom (see also: Geography of Ireland)

• British Coastal Areas (see also Shipping Forecast)
• Cities of the United Kingdom
• Economic geography of the United Kingdom
• County name etymologies
• Extreme points of the United Kingdom
• Conurbations in the United Kingdom
• National Parks, England and Wales
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
• Towns of the United Kingdom

• Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England
• Ceremonial counties of England
• Regions of England
• Subdivisions of England
• Traditional counties of England
• List of towns in England

• List of towns in Northern Ireland

• Lieutenancy areas of Scotland
• List of burghs in Scotland
• Subdivisions of Scotland
• Traditional counties of Scotland
• National Parks, Scotland

• Ceremonial counties of Wales
• List of towns in Wales
• Subdivisions of Wales
• Traditional counties of Wales

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - United Kingdom main page

• Demographics of the United Kingdom
• Population of England - historical estimates

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Historical states of the British Isles

• Ancient Britain
• Avalon
• Roman Britain
• Caledonia
• Hibernia
• Kingdom of the Picts
• Kingdom of the Scots
• Heptarchy
• States in Medieval Britain
• Commonwealth of England
• Kingdom of England
• Kingdom of Ireland
• Kingdom of Scotland (when Picts and Scots merged in 843)
• Kingdom of Great Britain (when England & Scotland merged in 1707);
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (when Great Britain and Ireland merged in 1801)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the modern state nominally known as the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - United Kingdom overseas territories

Main article: Dependent territories of the United Kingdom

• Anguilla
• Bermuda
• British Antarctic Territory
• British Indian Ocean Territory
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Falkland Islands
• Gibraltar
• Montserrat
• Pitcairn Islands
• Saint Helena
  • Ascension Island
  • Tristan da Cunha
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus
• Turks and Caicos Islands

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Natural environment

• Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Climate of the United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom Climate Change Programme
• Conservation in the United Kingdom
• Environmentally Sensitive Area
• Green belts
• Trees in Great Britain
• National Nature Reserves
• National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
• Rivers of the United Kingdom
• Special Protection Area
• Site of Special Scientific Interest
• List of waterfalls of the United Kingdom
• List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom
  • The Great Storm of 1987

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Built environment

• Abbeys and priories in England
• Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland
• Abbeys and priories in Scotland
• Abbeys and priories in Wales
• Bridges
  • Crossing the Thames, including tunnels
• Council house
• Historic houses in England
• Housing association
• Housing Corporation
• National House Building Council
• New towns
• Piers
• Reservoirs and dams in the United Kingdom
• Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Transport in the United Kingdom

Main article: Transport in the United Kingdom

• Railway system
  • History
  • Stations A-Z
• British car number plates
• British Road Numbering Scheme
• List of British car manufacturers
• List of motorways in the United Kingdom
• Vehicle Excise Duty (car tax)
• Waterways in the United Kingdom
  • British Waterways
  • History of the British canal system
• Tunnels in the United Kingdom
• Cycleways in the United Kingdom
• Common Travel Area

See also

• Geology of the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - History

Main article: History of Britain and history of articles in other sections on this page.

• History of the United Kingdom
  • History of England
    • History of London
    • England: Absolutism and Constitutionalism
  • History of Scotland
  • History of Wales
  • History of Ireland
  • British Empire and the Commonwealth
  • Ancient Britain
  • Roman Britain
  • Sub-Roman Britain

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Commerce and industry

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Money economics and business

• Bank of England
• Bank of Scotland
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• British coinage
• British banknotes
• Pound Sterling
• FTSE 100 Index
• Private Finance Initiative

• Economy of the United Kingdom
  • Tourism in England
  • Tourism in Scotland
  • Tourism in Wales
  • Tourism in Northern Ireland
• The Industrial revolution
• The Great Depression in the United Kingdom

• List of British companies
• British Professional Bodies

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Regulatory bodies

• Advertising Standards Authority
• Financial Services Authority or FSA
• Housing Corporation
• Office of Communications (Ofcom)
• Office of the Water Regulator (Ofwat)
• Press Complaints Commission
• Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC)

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Trade Union Federations

• Trades Union Congress
• Scottish Trades Union Congress

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Politics monarchy and military

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Politics of the United Kingdom

• Parliament of the United Kingdom
  • List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
  • List of Parliaments of Great Britain
  • House of Commons
    • List of British MPs
  • House of Lords
• Government of the United Kingdom
  • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Cabinet of the United Kingdom
  • Databases in the United Kingdom
  • Intelligence Services
  • Local Government in the United Kingdom
    • Local government in England
  • Public bodies and task forces of the UK government
• Constitution of the United Kingdom
  • Constitutional status of Cornwall
• Elections in the United Kingdom
• Referendums in the United Kingdom
  • UK referendum on EU constitution
• List of political parties in the United Kingdom
• List of British politicians by wealth at death
• Courts of the United Kingdom
• Pressure groups in the United Kingdom
• Foreign relations of the United Kingdom
• Ambassadors from the United Kingdom
• British honours system
• Politics of Scotland
  • Scottish Parliament
  • Members of the Scottish Parliament
  • Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999
  • Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003
  • Local government in Scotland
• National Assembly for Wales
  • Welsh Assembly Government

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Criminal justice law policing and emergency services

• British citizenship, British nationality law
• British Police
  • Serious Organised Crime Agency
  • Special Branch
  • Diplomatic Protection Group
• Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
• Crown Prosecution Service
• Serious Fraud Office
• Courts of England and Wales
• Her Majesty's Prison Service
  • United Kingdom prison population
  • List of United Kingdom prisons
• National Probation Service
• 9-9-9 Emergency telephone number
• English law (also applies to Wales)
• Uncodified constitution
  • Magna Carta (1215)
  • Petition of Right (1628)
  • Bill of Rights (1689)
  • Great Reform Act (1832)
  • Parliament Act (1911)
• Scots Law
• Common Law
• European Union Law
• Human rights in the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Monarchy

• List of British monarchs
• British Royal Family
• Coronation of the British monarch
• List of UK organisations with royal patronage
• List of UK place names with royal patronage
• Line of Succession to the British Throne
• Style of the British Sovereign
• Palaces
• Royal Train

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Military

• British Armed Forces
  • Royal Navy
    • Royal Marines
  • British Army
  • Royal Air Force
• The United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction
• Ministry of Defence
• British military history
  • British military history of World War II
  • Bletchley Park

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Peerage

• Peerage of England
• Peerage of Scotland
• Peerage of Great Britain
• Peerage of Ireland
• Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Representative peer

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Public inquiries

• List of selected British public inquiries

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Charities and youth organisations

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Charities

• Age Concern
• British Heart Foundation (BHF)
• Cancer Research UK
• ChildLine
• Comic Relief
• Oxfam
• Macmillan Cancer Relief
• Mercy Corps
• National Library for the Blind
• NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
• Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB)
• Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
• Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC)
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• Samaritans
• Scope
• Scottish Refugee Council
• Society of St James
• SOS Children's Villages UK
• St John Ambulance
• The Sue Ryder Foundation
• Sustrans
• Terrence Higgins Trust
• Wellcome Trust

See also: the Charity Commission

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Youth organisations

• Boys' Brigade
• Girl Guides
• Scouting
• St John Ambulance
• Woodcraft Folk
• Youth Hostels Association
• Air Training Corps

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Media and communications

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Television and radio

• British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC)
• Independent Television (ITV)
• Channel 4
• S4C
• five
• List of radio stations in the United Kingdom
• List of television stations in the United Kingdom
• Television in the United Kingdom
• Content:
  • British humour
  • British sitcom
  • British comedy
  • 100 Greatest Kid's TV shows

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Newspapers

• History of British newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Communications

• Telecommunications in the United Kingdom
• Office of Communications (Ofcom)
• Stamps and postal history of the United Kingdom
• List of postal codes in the United Kingdom (British postcodes)
• British telephone area codes (STD codes)
• Ukonline.gov.uk (central portal into various government websites)
• UK telephone numbering plan

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Culture of the United Kingdom

Main article: Culture of the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - British art

Main article: British art

• Art of the United Kingdom
• English school of painting
• National Gallery, London
• National Portrait Gallery
• Tate gallery
• Turner Prize

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Music in the UK

Main article: Music in the UK

• List of music festivals in the United Kingdom

• British popular music
• Early British popular music
• British Invasion
• New Wave of British Heavy Metal
• Britpop
• One-hit wonders in the UK
• United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Music Hall

• BBC Symphony Orchestra
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO)
• Hallé Orchestra
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Philharmonia
• London Symphony Orchestra
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• The Proms
• British opera

• Music of England
• Music of Scotland
• Music of Wales

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Cultural icons

• And did those feet in ancient time
• BBC
• Bagpipes
• Baked beans
• Big Ben chimes
• Black Cab (hackney cab)
• Bowler hat
• Beefeaters
• Britannia
• British Lion
• British Monarchy
• Britpop
• Bulldog
• Cap of Maintenance
• Cool Britannia
• Coronation Street
• Cricket
• Crossroads (soap opera)
• Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
• Cutty Sark
• Doctor Who
• England expects that every man will do his duty
• FA Premier League
• Fish and chips
• Football (soccer)
• Full English breakfast
• God Save the Queen
• Great Highland Bagpipe
• Hackney carriage
• Haggis
• Hyacinth Bucket
• Jack the Ripper
• James Bond
• John Bull
• Kilt
• King Arthur
• Land of Hope and Glory
• Last Night of the Proms
• London Bridge
• London Eye
• Marks & Spencer
• Marmite
• Miss Marple
• Mod
• Page Three girl
• Pint glass
• Police box
• Pub
• Queen's Guard
• RMS Queen Mary
• Red post boxes
• Red telephone boxes
• Robin
• Robin Hood
• Routemaster red double-decker bus
• Royal Warrant
• Rule Britannia
• Rugby
• Scots Wha Hae
• Sherlock Holmes
• Sten
• Stilton cheese
• Swinging Sixties
• Tartan (Scotland)
• Tea (cup of)
• Tea (meal)
• Test Card F
• Thames Television
• Tommy Atkins (generic name for a British soldier)
• Brodie helmet (helmet worn by the above)
• Trews
• Tube map
• Twiglets
• Umbrella
• Union Jack
• Weather
• Wellington boot
• Woolworths Group plc

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - British theatre

Main article: British theatre

• Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
• Royal National Theatre
• Laurence Olivier Awards
• Theatres in the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - British film

Main article: Cinema of the United Kingdom

• British Film Institute
  • BFI Top 100 British films
• National Film and Television Archive
• British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
• British Independent Film Awards
• Carry On films

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Museums

• Museums in England
• Museums in Northern Ireland
• Museums in Scotland
• Museums in Wales
• List of British railway museums

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Gardens

• List of botanical gardens in the United Kingdom
• Gardens in England
• Gardens in Scotland
• Gardens in Wales
• Gardens in Northern Ireland

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Gambling

• Gambling in the UK

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Other

• British humour

• British soap opera

• British literature
  • British Library
  • British comics

• Dance
  • Morris dance
  • Maypole Dancing

• Festivals in the United Kingdom

• Public house
  • CAMRA
  • Pub quiz

• Stiff upper lip

• 100 Greatest Cartoons

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Education

• Education in the United Kingdom
• List of schools in the United Kingdom
• List of British Universities
• British undergraduate degree classification
• Public school (UK)
• School years (United Kingdom)
• Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Religion and ethnicity

• Immigration to the United Kingdom
• Commission for Racial Equality

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Religion in the United Kingdom

Main article: Religion in the United Kingdom

• Christianity
  • Church of England (the established state church in England)
  • Church of Scotland (the established state church in Scotland)
  • General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
  • Methodism
  • Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
  • Roman Catholic Church
  • United Reformed Church
  • Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
  • History of the Jews in England
• Sikhism
• Buddhism
• Druidism
• See also:
  • Atheism/ Irreligion
  • Jedi
  • Status of religious freedom in the United Kingdom

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Ethnic groups

• English people
• Scottish people
• Welsh people
• Ulster-Scots
• Cornish people
• Irish community in Britain
• British Afro-Caribbean community
• British Asian community
• Chinese British
• Travellers
  • Irish Travellers
  • Roma
  • New age travellers

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Languages in the United Kingdom

Main article: Languages in the United Kingdom

• English
  • British English including dialects and regional accents
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • American and British English differences
  • Received Pronunciation
  • Estuary English
  • Cockney rhyming slang
  • Cant
  • Polari
  • Scottish English
  • West Country accents & dialects
• Celtic languages
  • Welsh
  • Scots Gaelic
  • Irish/Irish language in Northern Ireland
  • Cornish
• Scots in Scotland and Ulster
• British Sign Language (BSL)
• Romany
• Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi languages
  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • Punjabi
  • Urdu
  • Bengali

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Food

• British cuisine
• Food and Drink Federation

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Science and technology

• Databases in the United Kingdom
• List of UK government scientific research institutes

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Sports and games

The following are the major sports; local groups may well play many others.

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Cricket

• 2005 English cricket season
• Marylebone Cricket Club
• Middlesex County Cricket Club

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Association football or soccer

• British Home Championship
• England
  • The Football Association
  • English national football team
  • FA Premier League
  • The Football League
  • FA Cup
  • English football league system
  • National League System
• Scotland
  • Scottish Football Association
  • Scottish national football team
  • List of Scottish Football Clubs
  • Scottish Football League
  • Scottish Premier League
  • Highland Football League
  • East of Scotland Football League
  • South of Scotland Football League
  • Scottish Junior Football Association
  • North Caledonian Football League
  • Scottish Cup
• Northern Ireland
  • Irish Football Association (not to be confused with the Football Association of Ireland)
  • Northern Ireland national football team
  • Irish Football League (not to be confused with the Football League of Ireland)
• Wales
  • Football Association of Wales
  • Welsh national football team
  • League of Wales

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Rugby

• Rugby union
  • England
    • Rugby Football Union
      • England national rugby union team
      • Guinness Premiership
      • National Division One
  • Wales
    • Welsh Rugby Union
      • Wales national rugby union team
      • Celtic League
      • Welsh Premier Division
  • Scotland
    • Scottish Rugby Union
      • Scotland national rugby union team
      • Celtic League
  • Calcutta Cup
  • Powergen Cup
  • British and Irish Lions
• Rugby league
  • England
    • Rugby Football League
  • Scotland
    • Scotland Rugby League
  • Wales
  • Great Britain
  • Challenge Cup

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Hiking

• Long-distance footpaths in the UK
• Ramblers' Association

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Rowing

• Boat Race (Oxford vs Cambridge)
• Henley Royal Regatta

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Skiing

• Ski Club of Great Britain

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Other

• London Olympics
• Curling
• Darts
• English billiards
• Eton Wall Game
• Fives (including Eton Fives)
• Lawn tennis
• Skittles
• Snooker

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - People

• List of English people
• List of Irish people
• List of Scots
• List of Welsh people
• List of Cornish people

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Interest groups and societies

• British Professional Bodies
• Women's Institute
• List of UK learned societies
• List of London's gentlemen's clubs
• Pressure groups in the United Kingdom
  • Fathers' rights movement in the UK

See also

• British national identity card
• Charities and youth organisations

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Welfare state

• National Health Service
  • NHS Foundation Trust
• National Insurance
• Social security
• British pension system

List of topics related to the United Kingdom - Miscellaneous

• Imperial measurements
• Metrication
• List of famous British miles
• List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll
• Taxation in the United Kingdom

See also

• Lists of country-related topics - similar lists for other countries

Categories: Lists of country-related topics | Topic lists | United Kingdom-related lists

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