Chapter 5: A Modern, Thriving Society Flashcards by Maggie Allen

Tanni Grey-Thompson

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

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Kelly Holmes

two gold medals for running

2004 olympic games

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Ellen MacArthur

yachtswoman

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

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David Weir

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

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Chris Hoy

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

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Bradley Wiggins

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

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Mo Farah

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

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

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Andy Murray

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

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

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

Leamington Spa - 1872

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Formula 1 Championship winners

Damon Hill
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button

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The Proms

8-week summer season of orchestral classic music

Various venues, incl. Royal Albert Hall

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Henry Purcell

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

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George Frederick Handel

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

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

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Edward Elgar

Pomp and Circumstance Marches

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

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Wrote music for orchestras and choirs

Strongly influenced by English folk music

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William Walton

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

Large music venue in Glasgow

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National Eisteddfod

Annual cultural festival in Wales

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The Mousetrap

murder-mystery play by Agatha Christie

Running in the West End since 1952

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Wrote comic operas
HMS Pinafore
Pirates of Penzance
The Mikado

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Jesus Christ Superstar Evita Cats Phantom of the Opera

Pantomine

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

Thomas Gainsborough

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

David Allan

Scottish painter portraits Origin of Painting

John Constable

Landscape painter | Dedham Vale - border of Suffolk and Essex

The Pre-Raphaelites

19th century Holman Hunt Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sir John Millais

Sir John Lavery

Northern Irish Portrait painter Painted the Royal Family

Henry Moore

English sculptor and artist | Large bronze abstract sculptures

John Petts

Welsh artist | Engravings and stained glass

Lucian Freud

German-born British artist | Portraits

David Hockney

'Pop art' movement of 1960s

Cathedrals

Durham Lincoln Canterbury Salisbury

Inigo Jones

Designed Queen's House at Greenwich | Banqueting House in Whitehall

Robert Adam

Architect of Dumfries House in Scotland | Ideas influenced building of the Royal Crescent

'Gothic' style

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

Sir Edwin Lutyens

Designed The Centotaph - site of the annual rememberance day celebration

Modern British Architects

Sir Norman Foster Lord Richard Rogers Dame Zaha Hadid

Lancelot Capability Brown

Designed the grounds of country houses to appear natural

Gertrude Jekyll

Worked with Edwin Lutyens to design gardens at country houses

British Nobel Prize in Literature Winners

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

Man Booker Prize Winners

Hilary Mantel Ian McEwan Julian Barnes

Charles Dickens

Characters - Scrooge and Mr Micawber

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island Kidnapped Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding Crowd | Jude the Obscure

Evelyn Waugh

Satirical novels Decline Fall and Scoop Best known for Brideshead Revisited

Sir Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim

Graham Greene

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

Famous poets

``` 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 ```

When were films first showed publicly in Britain?

1896

Charlie Chaplin

Famous silent movie star | Known for the tramp character

Directors of the 1930s

Alexander Korda | Alfred Hitchcock

In Which We Serve

British movie used to boost morale in WWII

Modern British Directors

David Lean | Ridley Scott

British Comedies of the 50s and 60s

Passport to Pimlico The Ladykillers Carry On films

Ealing Studios

Oldest continuously working film studio in the world

Nick Park

Won four Oscars for Wallace and Gromit

Older famous actors

Laurence Olivier David Niven Rex Harrison Richard Burton

Recent Oscar Winners

``` Colin Firth Anthony Hopkins Judi Dench Kate Winslet Tilda Swinton ```

39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock

Brief Encounter

David Lean

The Third Man

Carol Reed

The Belles of St Trinian's

Frank Launder

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean

Women in Love

Ken Russell

Don't Look Now

Nicolas Roeg

Chariots of Fire

Hugh Hudson

The Killing Fields

Roland Joffe

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Mike Newell

Touching the Void

Kevin MacDonald

Punch

Satirical magazine first published in the 1840s

Morecambe and Wise

Performed in music halls int he 40s and 50s

Satirical Shows

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

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

The National Trust

Founded in 1895 by 3 volunteers | Has 61,000 volunteers today

The Eden Project

Cornwall | Giant greenhouses