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Hace 2 días · British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon ( Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these ...
Hace 4 días · The Act of Union in 1707, passed by the English and Scottish Parliaments, combined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into one union: Great Britain. This changed Anne’s official title from the Queen of England to the Queen of Great Britain. Queen Anne, 1665-1714 by Michael Dahl, 1705. Source: Royal Museums Greenwich
Hace 1 día · The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain —which contains England, Wales, and Scotland —as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland. The name Britain is sometimes used to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole. The capital is London, which is among the world’s leading commercial, financial, and ...
Hace 2 días · Navy. Army. Air Force. The British Armed Forces are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. They also promote the UK's wider interests, support international peacekeeping efforts and provide humanitarian aid. [6] Since the formation of the Kingdom of Great ...
Hace 4 días · Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably ...
Hace 2 días · e. The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
Hace 1 día · A pensive Gladstone, from the book Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling. In 1852, following the appointment of Lord Aberdeen as prime minister, head of a coalition of Whigs and Peelites, Gladstone became Chancellor of the Exchequer.
