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British general election, 1754 The British general election, 1754 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1761 The British general election, 1761 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1768 The British general election, 1768 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1774 The British general election, 1774 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1780 The British general election, 1780 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1784 The British general election of 1784 resulted in William Pitt the Younger securing an overall majority of about 120 in the British House of Commons, having previously had to survive in a House which was dominated by his opponents.
British general election, 1790 The British general election, 1790 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1796 The British general election, 1796 returned members to serve in the 18th and last Parliament of Great Britain to be held before the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801. The members in office at the end of 1800 continued to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom 1801-1802.
British G class submarine The Royal Navy's G-class of diesel/electric submarines were launched between 1914 and 1917, and intended for operations in the North Sea in World War I against German U-boats. A total of 14 boats were built at four yards: G1 to G5 by Chatham Dockyard, G6 & G7 by Armstrong Whitworth, G8 to G13 by Vickers, and G14 by Scott's on the Clyde.
British GAA The British Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cumann LĂşthchleas Gael An Bhreatain - this however is grammatically incorrect, as is should read Cumann LĂşthchleas Gael Na Breataine, thus including the genetice case) or British GAA is one of the boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in Great Britain. The board is also responsible for the British Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.
British Geological Survey The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly-funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. The BGS headquarters are in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, but other centres are located in Edinburgh, Wallingford, Cardiff, Exeter, and London.
British Gliding Association The British Gliding Association (BGA) is the governing body for gliding in the United Kingdom. Gliding in the United Kingdom operates through 85 gliding clubs (both civilian and service) which have 2,641 gliders and 8,242 full flying members, though a further 26,000 people have gliding air-experience flights each year.
British Golf Museum The British Golf Museum is located in the Royal Burgh of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, which is the home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and is colloquially known as the "Home of Golf".
British half penny coin The British decimal half penny (½p) – (pronounced as HAY-p'nee, IPA: ) and also written halfpenny or ha'penny – was first issued on 15 February 1971, the day the British currency was decimalised. In practice it had been available from banks in bags for some weeks previously.
British halfpenny coin It was long considered that the first halfpenny coins were produced in the reign of King Edward I (1272–1307), with earlier requirements for small change being provided by "cut coinage"; that is, pennies cut into halves or quarters, usually along the cross which formed a prominent part of the reverse of the coin. However, in recent years metal detectorists have discovered a few halfpennies of Kings Henry I (1100–1135) and Henry III (1216–1272) – these are extremely rare and very little is known about them; they have all been found in the London area, where they circulated alongside the more common cut coinage, and while it is possible that these coins were patterns or trials, it is clear that they did see circulation.
British hip hop British hip hop is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of rap music made in the United Kingdom.The Times Newspaper, Home grown - profile - British hip-hop - music, by Angus Batey, 26 Jul 2003 It is sometimes known as BrithopBBC News website: Is UK on Verge of Brithop boom, by Ian Youngs, 21 Nov 2005 (accessed 01 Nov 2006), and is generally classified as one of a number of styles of Urban music.
British humour British humour is notable due to its intellectual depth, usage of British slang, wit, and self-effacing culture, and its considerable breadth. As the lists below indicate, British humour is by no means limited to just one or two forms.
British Helsinki Human Rights Group The British Helsinki Human Rights Group is an Oxford-based non-governmental organization which monitors human rights in the 57 member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Despite its name, the organisation is not affiliated to the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
British Hockey Hall of Fame The British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, was founded in 1948 and is the third oldest Hockey Hall of Fame in the world behind the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame also founded in 1948 and the International Hockey Hall of Fame founded in 1943. The Hall serves to honor those individuals that have contributed to the sport of hockey in Britain.
British Hockey League The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League. The league replaced three regional leagues: the Inter-City League in southern England, the English League North in northern England and the Northern League in Scotland.
British Home Guard The British Home Guard started off as the brain child of the Commander-in-Chief Walter Kirke. Witness to the destruction of Poland in September 1939, Kirke knew that it was but a matter of time before the tanks and warplanes of the Wehrmacht came to England's doorstep.
British Home Championship The British Home Championship (also known as the Home International Championship) was an annual football competition contested between the UK's four national teams, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (Northern Ireland after 1921-1922), from the 1883-1884 season until the 1983-1984 season.
British Honduras British Honduras was the former name of a British colony on the east coast of Central America, adjacent to the southeast of Mexico, now the independent nation of Belize. First settled by Europeans in the 17th century, it was a crown colony from 1871 through 1964, when it became self-governing.
British Horse Society The British Horse Society (BHS) is a membership-based equine charity (Registered Charity 210504). The BHS was founded in 1947 in the amalgamation of two organisations - the Institute of the Horse and Pony Club, and the National Horse Association of Great Britain.
British Household Panel Survey The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), carried out at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex, is an instrument for social and economic research. A sample of British households was drawn and first interviewed in 1991.
British Hovercraft Corporation British Hovercraft Corporation is the corporate entity created when Saunders Roe and Vickers Supermarine combined with the intention of creating viable commercial hovercraft. The British Hovercraft Corporation is responsible for the SR-N4, the cross-channel hovercraft most think of when the word "hovercraft" is evoked.
British Championship The British Championship is the most prestigious ice hockey cup competition in the United Kingdom, and also the longest established ice hockey competition. It has been run under various formats and titles since 1930 and contested annually since 1966.
British Chess Magazine British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess magazine in continuous publication. First published in January 1881, it has appeared at monthly intervals ever since including during World War I and World War II.
British Chinese British Chinese, also Chinese British, Chinese Britons or British-born Chinese, are people of Chinese ancestry who were born in or have immigrated to the United Kingdom. They are part of the Chinese diaspora, or Overseas Chinese.
British industrial mission British industrial mission is a network of ordained and lay chaplains who provide ministry to people in paid employment. The role of industrial chaplains, who represent predominantly Christian denominations, is to establish an engagement between the church and the world of employment by forming relationships with local employers and visiting workplaces on a regular basis.
British industrial narrow gauge railways British industrial narrow gauge railways are narrow gauge railways in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man that were primarily built to serve one or more industries. Some offered passenger services for employees or workmen, but they did not run public passenger trains.
British invasions of the RĂ­o de la Plata The British invasions of the RĂ­o de la Plata (Spanish: Invasiones Inglesas al RĂ­o de la Plata) were a series of unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colonies located around the La Plata Basin in South America. The invasions took place between 1806 and 1807, as part of the Napoleonic Wars, when Spain was an ally of France.
British Ice Hockey Cup The British Ice Hockey Cup (also known as the British Knockout Cup) is a knockout competition for British ice hockey clubs that are members of the Elite Ice Hockey League and clubs from other leagues that are invited to take part.
British Indian Army The British Indian Army was the army in India in the time of the British Raj (1858–1947).Peter Duckers The British Indian Army 1860-1914 Pub: Shire Books, ISBN 978-0-7478-0550-2Indian Army: History "the total strength of the British-Indian Army was 90,000"Brig (Retd) Noor A Husain The Role of Muslims Martial Races of Today's Pakistan in British-Indian Army in World War-II The Indian Army served both as a security force in India itself and, particularly during the World wars, in other theatres.
British Indian coins The British East India Company established its initial settlement in Surat in 1612, and started minting coins from the mid 17th century. The early European style coins were not popular outside their jurisdiction, and in 1717 the British obtained the right to strike their own rupees in the name of the Mughal emperor.
British Indian Ocean Territory The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, one half the way between Africa and Indonesia. The territory comprises the six atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands.
British Industries Fair The British Industries Fair was an important exhibition centre near the village of Castle Bromwich, which is situated within the northern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English West Midlands area.
British Informatics Olympiad The British Informatics Olympiad (BIO) is an annual computer-programming competition for secondary and sixth-form students. Any student under 19 who is in full-time pre-university education and resident in mainland Britain is eligible to compete.
British International Journalist of the Year award The International Journalist of the Year award (recently the Foreign Reporter of the Year) is one of the honours given annually by the British Press Awards. The journalist to have won the award most often (seven times, to 2005) is Robert Fisk.
British International Primary School Stockholm Established in 1980, the British International Primary School of Stockholm has built a reputation for excellence in both teaching and pastoral care. With high academic standards and a warm, caring environment, our school is the first choice in primary education for many parents in both the international and local communities.
British International school of New york The British International School of New York is a private school set to open in New York City in September 2006 and will be the first school in the area to offer a British education, with instruction, spelling and uniforms all modeled off of those used in Britain. It is slated to eventually serve children ages 4-13, though for its first year will only teach ages 4-9.
British Invasion The British Invasion was an influx of rock and roll performers from the United Kingdom (mostly England) who became popular in the United States, Australia, Canada and elsewhere. The classic British Invasion was in 1964-1966, but the term may also be applied to later "waves" of UK artists that had significant impact on entertainment markets outside of Britain.
British Invasion (comics) The British Invasion of American comics is a term used to describe the influx in the late 1980s of British comics creators, especially writers. The creators initially worked in the employ of DC Comics, but in recent years many have also worked for Marvel Comics.
British Iron Age In the British Isles, the Iron Age lasted from about the 7th century BC until the Roman conquest and until the 5th century in non-Romanised parts. Attempts to understand the human behaviour of the period have traditionally focused on Great Britain's geographic position and its landscape, along with the channels of influence coming from continental Europe.
British Isles The British Isles are a group of islands off the north west coast of continental Europe comprising Great Britain, Ireland and a number of smaller islands."British Isles," Encyclopedia Britannica The term British Isles can be misunderstood and is sometimes considered objectionable, mainly in Ireland.
British Isles (terminology) The various terms used to describe the different (and sometimes overlapping) geographical and political areas of the islands traditionally referred to collectively as the British Isles are often a source of confusion. The purpose of this article is to explain the meanings of and inter-relationships among those terms.
British Israelism British Israelism (sometimes called Anglo-Israelism) is a complex set of theories, not necessarily compatible with each other, that have in common the idea that some ancient British people and/or royal lineages were direct lineal descendants of some of the Lost Tribes of Israel. The theory has adherents among a minority of Christians, usually Protestants of British descent .
British jazz Jazz in Britain has been performed in the country since shortly after the music's first appearance on record in 1917. A number of British musicians have gained international reputations, although adherents of this music have often felt embattled within the UK itself.
British jump racing Champion Jockey The Champion Jockey of National Hunt racing in Great Britain is the jockey who has ridden the most winning horses during a season. The list below shows the Champion Jockey and the number of winners for each year since 1900.
British Japan Consular Service Britain had a functioning consular service in Japan from 1859 after the signing of the 1858 Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce between James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and the Tokugawa Shogunate until 1941 when war was declared after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
British Jews British Jews (often referred to collectively, but imprecisely, as Anglo Jewry) are British subjects of Jewish descent or religion who maintain a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practising Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation.
British Journal of Cancer The British Journal of Cancer a twice-monthly professional medical journal of Cancer Research UK (a registered charity in the United Kingdom), published on their behalf by the Nature Publishing Group (a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd).
British Journal of Social Psychology British Journal of Social Psychology is a journal published by the British Psychological Society (BPS). It publishes original papers on subjects like social cognition, attitudes, group processes, social influence, intergroup relations, self and identity, nonverbal communication, and social psychological aspects of affect and emotion, and of language and discourse.
British Juggling Convention The British Juggling Convention (BJC) is a yearly Juggling convention put on by British jugglers from a city or a university Juggling club. The event usually takes place in the second week of the Easter holidays, lasting from the Wednesday to Sunday.
British K class submarine The K class submarines were a class of steam-propelled submarines of the Royal Navy designed in 1913. Intended as large, fast vessels which had the endurance and speed to operate with the battle fleet, they gained notoriety, and the nickname of Kalamity class, for being involved in many accidents.
British labour law British labour law is that body of law which regulates the rights, restrictions obligations of trade unions, workers and employers in the United kingdom. For information on the same subject outside the British context, see the labour and employment law article.
British land speed record The British land speed record is the fastest land speed achieved by a vehicle in the United Kingdom, as opposed to one on water or in the air. It is standardised as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs in opposite directions.
British literature British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. By far the largest part of this literature is written in the English language, but there are also separate literatures in Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Cornish, Manx, Jèrriais, Dgèrnésiais and other languages.
British L class submarine The L class submarines were a class of 27 British diesel-electric submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War I. They were larger versions of the successful E class and some survived to serve in the Second World War.
British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship The British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship was founded in 1893 by the Ladies' Golf Union of Great Britain. A match play tournament with 18 holes per match, the first tournament was played at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire, England.
British Land The British Land Company REIT () is one of the largest property development and investment companies in the United Kingdom. Formerly a plc it switched to Real Estate Investment Trust status when REITs were introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2007.
British Library of Political and Economic Science The British Library of Political and Economic Science (also known as the BLPES or as the LSE Library) is the main library of the London School of Economics in London, England. The library, founded in 1896, is the largest social sciences library in the world, containing over 4 million printed volumes.
British Library Sound Archive The British Library Sound Archive in London, England is one of the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. Opened in 1955 as the British Institute of Recorded Sound, it became part of the British Library in 1983.
British Lion Films British Lion Films Corporation is a film production and distribution company active under several forms since 1919. Until 1976 they were also film distributors as British Lion Films Ltd, with a distributor filmography of 232 films.
British manifestations to lower the age of consent Since the 1970s, a number of manifestations took place in Britain in favor of lowering the age of consent, either on the grounds of claims for children’s rights, gay liberationism or, more recently, “as a means to avoid unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) and ‘bad sex’ via education and health promotion”.Waites, Matthew.
British military aircraft designation systems Since the end of the First World War, aircraft types in British military service have generally been known by a "type name" assigned by their manufacturer, or (for various imported types) bestowed upon them by the first military service to bring them into service. This is in contrast to other military aircraft designation systems, such as those used in the United States, where an aircraft type is primarily identified by an alphanumeric designation.
British military history British military history is a long and varied topic, extending from the prehistoric and ancient historic period, through the Roman invasions of Julius Cæsar and Claudius and subsequent Roman occupation; warfare in the Mediaeval period, including the invasions of the Saxons and the Vikings in the Early Middle Ages, the Norman Conquest, and wars against France; through the Early Modern period, wars against Spain and France, and the English Civil War, and the beginnings of the colonial British Empire in India, the USA and Canada; and into the Modern period with the wars of Duke of Marlborough and against Napoleon, the Crimean War and into the 20th century with the Boer War, World War I and World War II, the Cold War the Korean War; and, most recently, Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and military operations in the Balkans and the Middle East.
British military rifles The origins of the modern British military rifles are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket. While a musket was largely inaccurate due to a lack of rifling and generous tolerance to allow for muzzle-loading it was cheaper to produce, loaded quickly, and the use in volley fire by massed troops meant accuracy was largely irrelevant.
British monarchy The British monarch or Sovereign is the head of state of the United Kingdom and in the British overseas territories. The British monarch is also head of state of fifteen other countries, all of which were once part of the British Empire—these, together with the UK, are known as the Commonwealth Realms.
British M class submarine The British Royal Navy M class submarines were a small class of diesel electric submarine built during World War I. The unique feature of the class was a 12 inch (305 mm) gun mounted in a turret forward of the conning tower.
British Malaya British Malaya loosely described a set of states on the Malay Peninsula that were colonized by the British from the 18th and the 19th until the 20th century. Before the formation of Malayan Union in 1946, the colonies were not placed under a single unified administration.
British Mandate of Mesopotamia The British Mandate of Iraq was a League of Nations Class A mandate under Article 22 and entrusted to Britain when the Ottoman Empire was divided in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles following World War I. This award was completed on April 25 1920, at the Sanremo conference in Italy.
British Mandate of Palestine The Mandate for Palestine, also known as the Mandate of Palestine or British Mandate of Palestine, was a territory in the Middle East comprising modern Jordan, Israel, and territories governed by the Palestinian Authority, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, which the League of Nations entrusted to the United Kingdom to administer in the aftermath of World War I as a Mandate Territory.
British Mediterranean Airways British Mediterranean Airways, trading as BMED, is an airline based at London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom. It operates scheduled services as a British Airways franchise operator to 16 destinations in 15 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe.
British Military Administration The British Military Administration (BMA) was the administrator of British Malaya between the end of World War II and the establishment of the Malayan Union in 1946. Specifically, the entity lasted from September 1945 to April 1946.
British Military Intelligence Systems in Northern Ireland British Military Intelligence Systems in Northern Ireland is a term used to describe various HUMINT, ELINT, and SIGINT systems used by the RUC and British Army Intelligence in Northern Ireland during the latest round of the conflict there. There have been a number of systems with only some described below.
British Mountain Biking National Championships The British Mountain Biking National Championships is organized by British Cycling (BCF), and the winner has the right to wear the national champion's jersey for the following year. The races are only open to riders of British nationality.
British Mountaineering Council The British Mountaineering Council (or BMC) is the national representative body of the UK that exists to protect the freedoms and promote the interests of climbers, hillwalkers and mountaineers, including ski-mountaineers. Its headquarters are in Didsbury, an area of Manchester, England.
British Museum algorithm The British Museum algorithm is a general approach to find a solution by checking all possibilities one by one, beginning with the smallest. The term refers to a conceptual, not a practical, technique where the number of possibilities are enormous.
British Museum Reading Room The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library. This function has now been moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form.
British narrow gauge railways There were more than a thousand British narrow gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways. Many notable events in British railway history happened on the narrow gauge including the first use of steam locomotives, the first public railway and the first preserved railway.
British nationalism British Nationalism is the term given to describe a political movement that has been in existence in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War. It initially developed as a wish to protect and defend the British Empire.
British nationality law British nationality law is the law of the United Kingdom concerning British citizenship and other categories of British nationality. The law is complex due to the United Kingdom's former status as an imperial power.
British nationality law and Hong Kong Ever since Hong Kong was created a British colony in 1842, citizenship and immigration have become a unique situation for residents and visitors of Hong Kong. With its beginning as a trading port to today's cosmopolitan international financial center, the territory has attracted refugees, immigrants to expatriate alike searching for a new life and making a new living.
British National Corpus The British National Corpus (or just BNC) is a 100-million-word collection of samples of written and spoken English from a wide range of sources. It was compiled as a general corpus (text collection) in the field of corpus linguistics.
British National Cycling Championships 2006 The British National Cycling Championships 2006 took place on the 24th and 25th June in the Yorkshire town, Beverley. The mens road race saw a new champion, Hamish Haynes but the womens race held no surprises as Nicole Cooke took her seventh victory - her sixth in a row.
British National Formulary The British National Formulary (BNF) contains a wide spectrum of information on prescribing and pharmacology, among others indications, side effects and costs of the prescription of all medications available on the National Health Service. It is used by pharmacists and other prescribers (such as nurses and doctors) to help them select appropriate treatments for their patients; and is used as a general reference book on the wards by nurses who administer medications.
British National Formulary for Children The British National Formulary for Children (BNF-C) is the standard UK paediatric reference for prescribing and pharmacology, among others indications, side effects and costs of the prescription of all medication drugs available on the National Health Service.
British National League The British National League is a defunct second-level professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. Although no formal promotion and relegation existed during its period of existence, it was considered to have a standard below that of the Ice Hockey Superleague (later replaced by the Elite Ice Hockey League and above that of the English National Hockey League and the Scottish National League.
British National League (1954 - 1960) The British National League was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1954 by the merger of the English National League and the Scottish National League, due to a declining number of teams, as many ice rinks previously fielding several sides chose to cut back.
British Naturism British Naturism (formally Central Council for British Naturism, but almost never known by this name now), is the official naturist movement in the United Kingdom, as recognised by the International Naturist Federation.
British New Wave The British New Wave is the name given to a trend in filmmaking among directors in Britain in the late fifties and early sixties. The label is a translation of Nouvelle Vague, the French term first applied to the films of François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and others.
British North America British North America consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire in North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The term was first used informally in 1783, but it was uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report.
British North America Acts The British North America Acts 1867–1975 are a series of Acts of the British Parliament dealing with the government of Canada. The first and most important Act of the series, the British North America Act 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867), was passed in 1867, and created the self-governing dominion of Canada.
British North Borneo Company The British North Borneo Company or North Borneo Chartered Company was chartered company assigned to administer North Borneo (today's Sabah in Malaysia) in August 1881 and North Borneo became a protectorate of the British Empire with internal affairs administered by the company until 1946 when it became the colony of British North Borneo. The main motto was Pergo et Perago (Latin), which means I undertake and I achieve.
British Nuclear Group British Nuclear Group (BNG) is a subsidiary of BNFL. One of it main aims is to manage the decommissioning of many of the UK's nuclear assets under contract to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a government body set up specifically to deal with the nuclear legacy under the Energy Act 2004.
British NVC community SM10 British NVC community SM10 (Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima) is one of the saltmarsh communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.
British occupation of the Faroe Islands in World War II Immediately following the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940, the United Kingdom occupied the stragically important Faroe Islands to pre-empt a German invasion. The occupation was considered friendly; British troops left shortly after the end of the War.
British one penny coin The British decimal one penny (1p) coin, produced by the Royal Mint, was issued on 15 February 1971, the day the British currency was decimalised. In practice, it had been available from banks in bags of ÂŁ1 for some weeks previously.
British Open Squash Championships The British Open Squash Championships is one of the oldest and most established tournaments in the game of squash. It is widely considered to be one of the two most prestigious tournaments in the game, alongside the World Open.

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