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Chapter 5: A Modern, Thriving Society Flashcards

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Tanni Grey-Thompson

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Uses a wheelchair
Won 16 Paralympic medals
11 Gold medals
Won London marathon 6x
30 world records
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Kelly Holmes

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two gold medals for running

2004 olympic games

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Ellen MacArthur

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yachtswoman

2004 - fastest person to sail around the world single-handed

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David Weir

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Paralympian who uses a wheelchair
6x gold medals
Won London marathon 6x

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Chris Hoy

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Scottish cyclist
6x gold, 1x silver
11 world championship titles

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Bradley Wiggins

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cyclist
2012 - first briton to win the tour de france
8x olympic medals - 4x gold

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Mo Farah

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British distance runner
2x gold medals
first briton to win olympic gold medal in the 10,000 meters

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Jessica Ennis-Hill

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2012 Olympic gold medal in Heptathol - 7 different track and field events
silver in 2016

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Andy Murray

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Scottish tennis player
First British man to win singles title in a Grand Slam tournament since 1936
Won men’s singles at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016

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Ellie Simmonds

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Paralympian
Gold medals for swimming at 2008, 2012, and 2016 Paralympic Games
Youngest member of the team at 2008 Olympics

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Horse races

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Royal Ascot - 5 day race in Berkshire
Grand National - Aintree near Liverpool
Scottish Grand National - Ayr

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First tennis club in the UK

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Leamington Spa - 1872

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Formula 1 Championship winners

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Damon Hill
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button

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The Proms

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8-week summer season of orchestral classic music

Various venues, incl. Royal Albert Hall

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Henry Purcell

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Organist at Westminster Abbey
Wrote church music, operas and other pieces
Influential

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George Frederick Handel

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Water Music for King George I
Music for the Royal Fireworks for George II
Oratorio - Messiah - often sung at Easter

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Gustav Holst

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The Planets - suite of pieces themed around the planets of the solar system

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Edward Elgar

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Pomp and Circumstance Marches

March No 1 usually played at the Last Night of the Proms

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Wrote music for orchestras and choirs

Strongly influenced by English folk music

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William Walton

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Wrote wide range of music from film scores to operas
Wrote marches for Elizabeth II coronation
Facade + Belshazzar’s Feast = most famous works

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SEC Centre

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Large music venue in Glasgow

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National Eisteddfod

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Annual cultural festival in Wales

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The Mousetrap

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murder-mystery play by Agatha Christie

Running in the West End since 1952

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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Wrote comic operas
HMS Pinafore
Pirates of Penzance
The Mikado

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Jesus Christ Superstar
Evita
Cats
Phantom of the Opera

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Pantomine

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light-hearted plays with music and comedy
Dame - a woman played by a man
^traditional character

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Thomas Gainsborough

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Portrait painter
18th century
painted people in the country or garden scenery

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David Allan

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Scottish painter
portraits
Origin of Painting

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John Constable

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Landscape painter

Dedham Vale - border of Suffolk and Essex

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The Pre-Raphaelites

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19th century
Holman Hunt
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sir John Millais

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Sir John Lavery

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Northern Irish
Portrait painter
Painted the Royal Family

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Henry Moore

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English sculptor and artist

Large bronze abstract sculptures

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John Petts

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Welsh artist

Engravings and stained glass

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Lucian Freud

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German-born British artist

Portraits

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David Hockney

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‘Pop art’ movement of 1960s

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Cathedrals

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Durham
Lincoln
Canterbury
Salisbury

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Inigo Jones

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Designed Queen’s House at Greenwich

Banqueting House in Whitehall

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Robert Adam

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Architect of Dumfries House in Scotland

Ideas influenced building of the Royal Crescent

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‘Gothic’ style

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Houses of Parliament
St Pancras Station
Town halls in Manchester and Sheffield

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Sir Edwin Lutyens

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Designed The Centotaph - site of the annual rememberance day celebration

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Modern British Architects

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Sir Norman Foster
Lord Richard Rogers
Dame Zaha Hadid

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Lancelot Capability Brown

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Designed the grounds of country houses to appear natural

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Gertrude Jekyll

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Worked with Edwin Lutyens to design gardens at country houses

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British Nobel Prize in Literature Winners

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Novelist - William Golding
Poet - Seamus Heaney
Playwright - Harold Pinter

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Man Booker Prize Winners

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Hilary Mantel
Ian McEwan
Julian Barnes

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Charles Dickens

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Characters - Scrooge and Mr Micawber

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Thomas Hardy

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Jude the Obscure

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Evelyn Waugh

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Satirical novels
Decline
Fall and Scoop
Best known for Brideshead Revisited

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Sir Kingsley Amis

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Graham Greene

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Influenced by religious beliefs
The Heart of the Matter
The Honorary Consul
Brighton Rock
Our Man in Havana
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Famous poets

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William Blake
John Keats
Lord Byron
Percy Shelly
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert and Elizabeth Browning
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sasson (WWI)
Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, John Betjeman, Ted Hughes - Modern
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When were films first showed publicly in Britain?

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Charlie Chaplin

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Famous silent movie star

Known for the tramp character

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Directors of the 1930s

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Alexander Korda

Alfred Hitchcock

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In Which We Serve

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British movie used to boost morale in WWII

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Modern British Directors

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David Lean

Ridley Scott

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British Comedies of the 50s and 60s

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Passport to Pimlico
The Ladykillers
Carry On films

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Ealing Studios

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Oldest continuously working film studio in the world

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Nick Park

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Won four Oscars for Wallace and Gromit

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Older famous actors

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Laurence Olivier
David Niven
Rex Harrison
Richard Burton

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Recent Oscar Winners

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Colin Firth
Anthony Hopkins
Judi Dench
Kate Winslet
Tilda Swinton
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39 Steps

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Brief Encounter

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David Lean

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The Third Man

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Carol Reed

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The Belles of St Trinian’s

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Frank Launder

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Lawrence of Arabia

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David Lean

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Women in Love

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Ken Russell

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Don’t Look Now

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Nicolas Roeg

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Chariots of Fire

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Hugh Hudson

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The Killing Fields

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Roland Joffe

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Four Weddings and a Funeral

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Mike Newell

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Touching the Void

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Kevin MacDonald

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Punch

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Satirical magazine first published in the 1840s

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Morecambe and Wise

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Performed in music halls int he 40s and 50s

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Satirical Shows

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That Was The Week That Was
Spitting Image
Monty Python’s Flying Circus

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How many national parks are there in England, Wales, and Scotland?

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The National Trust

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Founded in 1895 by 3 volunteers

Has 61,000 volunteers today

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The Eden Project

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Cornwall

Giant greenhouses

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