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A number of assassination attempts were made on the Protestant King James I, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famously, on 5th November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, by a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Guy Fawkes, which was stoked up and served as further fuel for antipathy in England to the Catholic faith. The First English Civil War broke out in 1642, largely as a result of an ongoing series of conflicts between the then King, Charles I, and Parliament. The defeat of the Royalist army by the New Model Army o ...

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History of England, History of England - England before the English, History of England - The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Celtic Britain, History of England - England during the Middle Ages, History of England - Tudor England, History of England - Religious Conflict and the Civil War, History of England - The Industrial Revolution, History of England - Recent history

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The late 18th and early 19th centuries saw considerable social upheaval as a largely agrarian society was transformed by technological advances and increasing mechanisation, which was the Industrial Revolution. Much of the agricultural workforce was uprooted from the countryside and moved into large urban centres of production, as the steam-based production factories could undercut the traditional cottage industries, due to economies of scale and the increased output per worker made possible by the new technologies. The consequent overcrowdi ...

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History of England, History of England - England before the English, History of England - The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Celtic Britain, History of England - England during the Middle Ages, History of England - Tudor England, History of England - Religious Conflict and the Civil War, History of England - The Industrial Revolution, History of England - Recent history

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Calton Hill is a hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, just to the east of the city centre. It includes several places of interest, such as the National Monument, Nelson's Monument, the Royal High School and the City Observatory. Calton Hill is the venue for a number of events throughout the year. The largest of these is the Beltane Fire Festival held on the 30 April each year, attended by over 10,000 people. ...

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Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. Cambridgeshire contains most of the region known as Silicon Fen. The county town is Cambridge. Cambridgeshire today is the product of several local government unifications. In 1888 when county councils where introduced, two were set up, following the traditional division of Cambridgeshire into ...

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• Cambridgeshire - Settlements
• Cambridgeshire - Places of interest
• Cambridgeshire - External link

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Chatsworth House is a large country house 6½ miles (10.5 km) north-west of Matlock in Derbyshire, England, originally built by Bess of Hardwick. Chatsworth is the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, whose family name is Cavendish, from Cavendish, Suffolk, and the name of Bess of Hardwick's second husband, (William Cavendish). Chatsworth stands on the left bank of the River Derwent and looks across the river to the sunset and the low hills that divide the valleys of the Derwent and t ...

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• Chatsworth House - History
• Chatsworth House - Outline of the structure of the present building
• Chatsworth House - Early Chatsworth
• Chatsworth House - The 1st Duke's Chatsworth
• Chatsworth House - The 6th Duke's Chatsworth
• Chatsworth House - Early 20th-century Chatsworth
• Chatsworth House - Modern Chatsworth
• Chatsworth House - The Interiors
• Chatsworth House - The 1st Duke's rooms
• Chatsworth House - 18th-century alterations
• Chatsworth House - The 6th Duke's rooms
• Chatsworth House - The private rooms
• Chatsworth House - Chatsworth's garden
• Chatsworth House - The Elizabethan garden
• Chatsworth House - The 1st Duke's garden 1684–1707
• Chatsworth House - The 4th Duke's garden 1755–1764
• Chatsworth House - The 6th Duke's garden 1826–1858
• Chatsworth House - The modern garden 1950–date
• Chatsworth House - The stables
• Chatsworth House - The park the woods and the farmyard
• Chatsworth House - The estate
• Chatsworth House - Chatsworth and Rights of Way

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Chatsworth may mean: Chatsworth House and surrounding estate in Derbyshire, England Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada Chatsworth, Georgia Chatsworth, California Chatsworth, Illinois Chatsworth, Iowa Chatsworth, New Jersey Chatsworth, Durban, South Africa Chatsworth, Zimbabwe Other related archivesCanada, Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, California, Chatsworth, Georgia, Chatsworth, Illinois, Chatsworth, Iowa, Ch

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Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England. Its county town is the city of Chester. It borders the ceremonial counties of Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire (with Stoke-on-Trent), and Shropshire. It also borders the current unitary authorities of Flintshire and Wrexham in Wales. Some northern parts of the county are effectively suburbs of Manchester or Liverpool, and many of those who work in these cities commute from other parts of the county.

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• Cheshire - History
• Cheshire - Geography
• Cheshire - Famous products
• Cheshire - Famous people
• Cheshire - Settlements
• Cheshire - Places of interest

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Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The most popular of these worldwide is Association football, which is called soccer in several countries. The English language word football is also applied to Rugby football (Rugby union and Rugby league), American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, and Canadian football. When the term "foot ball" originated, it referred to a wide variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot — that is, by peasants — as oppose ...

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• Football - History
• Football - Ancient games
• Football - Mediæval football
• Football - Calcio Fiorentino
• Football - Official disapproval and attempts to ban football
• Football - The establishment of modern codes of football
• Football - English public schools
• Football - The Cambridge Rules
• Football - Other developments in the 1850s
• Football - Australian Rules football
• Football - The Football Association
• Football - Rugby football
• Football - North American football
• Football - Gaelic football
• Football - The split in rugby football
• Football - The reform of American football
• Football - The two rugby codes diverge further
• Football - Football today
• Football - Use of the word football in English-speaking countries
• Football - Games descended from the FA rules of 1863
• Football - Games descended from Rugby School rules
• Football - Irish and Australian varieties of football
• Football - Surviving Mediæval ball games
• Football - Other surviving public school games
• Football - More recent inventions and derivations
• Football - Tabletop games and other recreations

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A wyvern (or wivern) is a winged reptilian legendary creature often found in medieval heraldry where the usual blazon is statant (standing). The wyvern is similar to a European dragon, but it differs in that it has only two legs, cannot breathe fire, and has a barbed or snake-like tail. Occasionally, it is said to be smaller than a dragon or to be able to breathe fire. In heraldry, it represents pes ...

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• Wyvern - Wyverns in Pop Culture

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Chapman codes are largely a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes identifying administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, but covering historical divisions. They are widely used in genealogy. Chapman code - Country codes. ENG England IRL Ireland SCT Scotland WLS Wales ALL All countries Chapman code - Traditional counties. Chapman code - Islands. CHI Channel Islands A ...

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• Chapman code - Country codes
• Chapman code - Traditional counties
• Chapman code - Islands
• Chapman code - England
• Chapman code - Wales
• Chapman code - Scotland
• Chapman code - Ireland
• Chapman code - 1975-1996 regions

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The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. They are also often used in a geographic reference frame, and in this capacity are sometimes called geographic counties. Ceremonial counties of England - Map. Northumberland Tyne and Wear Durham Cumbri ...

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• Ceremonial counties of England - Map
• Ceremonial counties of England - History
• Ceremonial counties of England - Definition
• Ceremonial counties of England - External link

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Castleton is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England. The village lies at the western end of the Hope Valley, on the Peakshole Water stream. Castleton originally grew around the Norman Peveril Castle at around 1198, and later prospered from lead mining (see Derbyshire lead mining history). This created and enlarged local caverns, four of which are now open to the public as The Devil's Arse or Peak Cavern, Blue John Cavern, Speedwell Cavern and Treak Cliff Cavern. A l ...

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A cause célèbre (of which the plural is causes célèbres) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning and/or heated public debate. It is particularly used for famous long-running legal cases. It is a French phrase in common usage in English. In French, cause means a legal case, and célèbre means "famous". The phrase originated with the 37-volume Nouvelles Causes Célèbres, published in 1763, which was a collection of reports of well-known French court dec ...

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• Cause célèbre - Y
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The City of London Police is the Home Office police force responsible for the City of London. (The Metropolitan Police is responsible for the rest of London.) With about 1,200 employees (including about 900 police officers) and only three police stations, on Snow Hill, Wood Street, and Bishopsgate, the City of London Police is the smallest Home Office (territorial) police force in the United Kingdom both in terms of geographic area (1 square mile) and numbers ...

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• City of London Police - Recent Events
• City of London Police - Ranks in the City of London Police
• City of London Police - Commissioners of Police for the City of London
• City of London Police - External link

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Nottinghamshire lies on the Roman Fosse Way, and there are Roman settlements in the county, for example at Mansfield. The county was settled by Angles around the 5th century, and became part of the Kingdom, and later Earldom, of Mercia. However, there is evidence of Saxon settlement at Oxton, near Nottingham, and Tuxford, east of Sherwood Forest. The name first occurs in 1016, but until 1568 the county was administratively united with Derbyshire, under a single Sheriff. In Norman times the county developed malting and woollen industries. Dur ...

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Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire - History, Nottinghamshire - Physical geography, Nottinghamshire - Politics, Nottinghamshire - Economy and industry, Nottinghamshire - Culture, Nottinghamshire - Settlements and communications, Nottinghamshire - Places of interest

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List of mottos - Medical. Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland: In somno securitas (In sleep there is safety) Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland: omnes ab omnibus discamus" - literally "let us learn all things from everybody Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists: Corpus curare spiritumque (To care for the body and its breath of life) Canadian Association of General Surgeons: Sapientia Manaque Apta (Wisdom and a Skillful Hand)See also:

List of mottos, List of mottos - Organisations, List of mottos - Medical, List of mottos - Orders, List of mottos - Livery companies, List of mottos - Municipalities, List of mottos - British Counties, List of mottos - Educational institutions

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Jack Lawson was born in the port town of Whitehaven and grew up in the nearby village of Kells. His father was a sailor and miner who had begun working in a colliery by the age of nine, sailed round the world by eleven, and later served in the Royal Navy. His mother, Lisbeth Savage, was a strict disciplinarian. Both parents were illiterate and the family lived in extremes of poverty common at the time. At the age of three, Jack Lawson was sent to the local National School, Glass House School. Here, he learned to read, developing an avid inte ...

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Jack Lawson, Jack Lawson - Background, Jack Lawson - Trade Unionist, Jack Lawson - Member of Parliament, Jack Lawson - Elder Statesman

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List of disasters - Air disasters. See also: List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year This is a list of disasters involving objects in flight or near-flight. From 1990 onward, the list is exhaustive, including all air disasters killing 20 or more people. See also: List of space disasters, Accidents and incidents in aviation ...

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List of disasters, List of disasters - Natural disasters, List of disasters - Prehistoric disasters, List of disasters - Classical antiquity disasters, List of disasters - Medieval disasters, List of disasters - Renaissance and Enlightenment disasters, List of disasters - 19th century disasters, List of disasters - 20th century disasters, List of disasters - 21st century disasters, List of disasters - Transportation disasters, List of disasters - Air disasters, List of disasters - Rail disasters, List of disasters - Ship and ferry disasters, List of disasters - Road disasters, List of disasters - Other man-made disasters, List of disasters - Nuclear disasters, List of disasters - War disasters, List of disasters - Dam/dike/levee disasters, List of disasters - Environmental disasters, List of disasters - Mining disasters, List of disasters - Industrial disasters, List of disasters - Explosion disasters, List of disasters - Fire disasters, List of disasters - Miscellaneous, List of disasters - Causes of hypothetical future disasters

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Born into humble circumstances and receiving little education, at age 17, Brindley was apprenticed to a millwright near Macclesfield. Having completed his apprenticeship he set up business for himself as a wheelwright in Leek. He soon established a reputation for ingenuity and skill at repairing many different kinds of machinery. In 1752 he designed and built an engine for draining some coal-pits at Clifton in Lancashire. Three years later he built a machine for a silk-mill at Congleton. His reputation brought him to the attention of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater who was looking for a way to improve the transport of coal f ...

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James Brindley, James Brindley - Biography

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The territorial forces use the boundaries of the local government areas (counties and Scottish regions) established in the 1974/1975 local government reorganisations (although with subsequent modifications). In late 2005, the government announced that there was to be a reorganisation of Home Office (territorial) police forces in England and Wales. Several options are currently under review, but any force with less than 4,000 regular of ...

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List of police forces in the United Kingdom, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Territorial forces, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - England, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Scotland, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Wales, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Northern Ireland, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Channel Islands and Isle of Man, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Specialist local forces, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Ports, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Parks, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Other, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - National forces and agencies, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Military forces and agencies, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Former police forces, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Abolished under the Police Act 1946 and Police Act 1964, List of police forces in the United Kingdom - Abolished by the Local Government Act 1972

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The Surrey Police Cadets were created in November 2003 with six founding members. This increased to seven shortly afterwards. The were founded after two fifteen-years from Elmbridge, spoke to the Chief Constable. The program is open to 14-17-year olds, and consists of a three-day visit followed by a year-long program. The three-day visit enables potential cadets to discover the different roles available to Officers and staff. Cadets in the short-term program are assessed throughout the three daysand then the top 25 students, a ...

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British Police Cadets, British Police Cadets - Metropolitan Police, British Police Cadets - Merseyside Police, British Police Cadets - South Yorkshire Police, British Police Cadets - Sussex Police, British Police Cadets - Surrey Police, British Police Cadets - West Mercia Constabulary, British Police Cadets - Bedfordshire Police, British Police Cadets - Derbyshire Constabulary, British Police Cadets - Greater Manchester Police, British Police Cadets - Hertfordshire Constabulary, British Police Cadets - Lincolnshire Police, British Police Cadets - Other departments

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History of Nottinghamshire - English control. The earliest Teutonic settlers in the district which is now Nottinghamshire were an Anglian tribe who, not later than the 5th century, advanced from Lincolnshire along the Fosseway, and, pushing their way up the Trent valley, settled in the fertile districts of the south and east, the whole region from Nottingham to within a short distance ...

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History of Nottinghamshire, History of Nottinghamshire - Historical setting, History of Nottinghamshire - English control, History of Nottinghamshire - Land division, History of Nottinghamshire - Political History, History of Nottinghamshire - Economy, History of Nottinghamshire - Relics

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