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Henry’s 1st wife

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Catherine of Aragon. Had Mary. Divorce

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Henry’s second wife

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Anne Boleyn. Had Elizabeth.

Executed at Tower of London

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Henry 3rd wife

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Jane Seymour.

Son Edward. Died after birth

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Henry 4th wife

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Anne of Cleves. German princess. Divorce

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Henry 5th wife

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Catherine Howard. Cousin of Boleyn. Executed

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Henry 6th wife

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Catherine Parr. Widow.

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Who wrote Auld Lang syne

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When celebrating Hogmanay. Robert burns

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Curry house/ shampooing

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Sake Dean Mahomet

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What was Crimean war about

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Turkey, Britain and France v Russia. Media. Victoria Cross medal

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Thomas Gainsborough

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Portrait painter / country or garden scenery 1700/

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David Allan

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Scottish painter. Portraits - The Origin if Painting

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Joseph Turner

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Landscape painter in modern style. Raised profile of landscape painting

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John Constable

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Landscape. Works of Dedham Vale in suffllolk Essex border

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Pre Raphaelites

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Second half of 1800/ religious and literary themes in bright colors

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Who are Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais

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Pre raphaelites

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Sir John Alavert

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N. Ireland . Painter royal fam

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17
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Henry Moore

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Large bronze abstract sculptures

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John petts

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Welsh, engravings, Stained glass

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Lucian Freud

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German. Portraits

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David Hockney

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Pop art movement of 1960s

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Director, 39 steps

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22
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David Lean

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Director of Brief Encounter: Lawrence of Arabia

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Carol Reed

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Director, The Third Man

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Frank Launder

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Director, the Belles of St Trinians

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ken Russell

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Director, Women in Love

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26
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Nicholas Roeg

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Director, don’t look now

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Hugh Hudson

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Director, chariots of Fire

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Roland Joffe

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Director, the killing fields

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Mike Newell

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Director, 4 weddings and a funeral

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30
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Kevin MacDonald

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Director, touching the void

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31
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Jane Austen

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Novelist. Pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility

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32
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Charles Dickens

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Oliver Twist and Great Expectations - Scrooge Mr McAwber

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Robert Louis Stephenson

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Author for children. Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Thomas Hardy

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Author and poet. . Novels on rural society. Far from the maddening crowd and Jude the Obscure.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Scottish Dr and writer. Sherlock Holmes , fictional detective

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Evelyn Waugh

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Satirical novels, Decline and Falk and Scoop; Brideshead Revisited

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Sir Kingsley Amis

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English novelist and poet. Wrote more than 20 novels. Lucky Jim

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Graham Greene

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Wrote novels rooted in religion. The heart of the matter, the honorary consul, Brighton Rock and Our Man in Havana

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Henry Purcell

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Organist at Westminster Abbey

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40
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George Frederick Handel

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German composer. Water music for K George I and Music for Royal Fireworks for George 2. Messiah.

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Gustav Holst

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Composer. The planets . Jupiter l. I vow to thee my country (hymn)

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Sir Edward Elgar

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Composer. Pomp and Circumstance (played around last night of the Proms at Royal Albert Hall)

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43
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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Wrote music for orchestras and choirs ; influenced. By traditional Englishb folk music

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Sir William Walton

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Scores and opera. And marches for coronations of K George 6 and W Eliz 2. Facade became a ballet and Belshazzars. feast

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45
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Benjamin Britten

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Operas. Peter Grimes and Billy Budd. A Young Persons Gide to the Orchestra

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Sir Roger Bannister

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Ran mile under 4 mins

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47
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Sir Jackie Stewart

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Scot. Formula one champ x3

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48
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Bobby Moore

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Captain English team. Won WC 66

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49
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Sir Ian Botham

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Captain, English cricket

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50
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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean

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Gold for ice dancing Olympics 84

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51
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Eid al Fitr

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End of ramadan

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52
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Eid Ul Adha

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Muslim sacrifices Ibrhaim sacrificed own son

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53
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Vaisakhi

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Sikh festival - celebrates founding of Sikh community known as Khalsa

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54
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Diwali

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Oct or Nov for five days. Festival of Lights. Hindus and Sikhs

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55
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When St David’s Day

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1st March - Wales

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56
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When is St George’s Day

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23 April - England

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57
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When is St Andres Day

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30 Nov - Scotland

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58
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Mary Peters

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Olympic Gold in pentathlon 1972. Dame of British empire in 2000

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59
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John Logie Baird

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Invented TV. Scot. In 1920s. 1932 first tv broadcasts between London and Glasgow

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Sir Robert Watson-Watt

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Developed radar. Proposed enemy aircraft could be detected by radio waves

61
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Alan Turing

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Invented Turing machine - influenced dvpt of computer science and computer

62
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Sir Bernard Lovell

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Built radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire

63
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John McLeod

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Discovered penicillin. Scot.

64
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Francis Crick

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Structure of DNA molecule in 1953.

65
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Sir Frank Whittle

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The jet engine was developed in Britain in 1930s

66
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Sir Christopher Cockerell

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Hovercraft 1950s

67
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Concorde

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Supersonic passenger aircraft. Britain and France. Flew in 1969. 1976 passengers. Retired in 2003

68
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Harriet

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Jump

69
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James Goodfellow

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ATM - Barclays in Enfield 1967

70
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Sir Robert Edwardsand Patrick Steptoe

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IVF - Oldham,Lancashire

71
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Sir Ian Wilbur and Keith Campbell

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Cloning a mammal

72
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Sir Peter Mansfield

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MRI

73
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Sir Tim Bernard- Lee

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Inventor of World Wide Web

74
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Clement Atlee

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Labour MP.

75
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Sir Roger Bannister

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Under 4m mile 1954

76
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Sir Steve Redgrave

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Gold in rowing 4 consecutive. Olympics

77
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

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Wheelchair and won 16 Paralympic medals, 11 gold in 5 Paralympic Games. Won London marathon 6x and broke 30 world records

78
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Dame Kelly Holmes

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Won 2 good for running in 04 Olympiad

79
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Dame Ellen MacArthur

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Yachtswoman 2004 fastest person to sail world singlehanded

80
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Sir Chris Hoy

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Scottish cyclist. Won 6 gold and one silver. Won 11 championship titles

81
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David Weir

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Paralympic who uses wheelchair and won 6 gold over 2 games. Won London marathon 6x

82
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Sir Bradley Wiggins

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Cyclist - 2012 first Briton to win Tour de France. Won 8 Olympic medals, 04/08/12/16

83
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Sir Mo Farah

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British distance runner. Gold in 12 and 16 for 5k and 10k m and first Briton to win Gold in 10k metres

84
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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill

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Won 2012 gold in heptathlon and silver in 16 Olympic Games

85
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Sir Andy Murray

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Tennis in 2012 won men’s singles in US open.

86
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Ellie Simmonds

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Paralympic who won gold for swimming at 08,12 and 16 Paralympic Games

87
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Dylan Thomas

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Welsh poet and writer

Under Milk Wood 1954

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Memorials in Swansea - DT Center

88
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RA Butler

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Richard Austen Butler conservative MP 1923. Education in 1941. Education (Butler) act 1944 - Free SS and division between primary and SS

89
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William Beveridge

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British economist and social reformer - liberal MP and leader of liberals in House of Lords. 1942 Report Social Insurance and Aliied services to fight 5 giant evils

90
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Clement Atlee

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Labour MP. Churchill’s Deputy PM in wartime coalition gvt. Prime Minister in 1945. Nationalism of coal and steel. Created NHS and implemented Beveridges plans for stronger welfare state

91
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Alexander Fleming

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1927 discovered penicillin.

92
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Howard Florey and Ernst Chain

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Made peen ill in into a usable drug

93
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Winston Churchill

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Conservative MP 1900. PM in 1940. Lost 1945 election but returned in 1951

94
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Rudyard Kipling

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India, US and U.K. Nobel prize for literature in 1907 - Just So Stories and the Jungle Book and If

95
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Women’s Franchise League

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1889 by Emmeline Pankhurst

96
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Florence Nightingale

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Treated in Turkey for Crimean war - 1860 training school at St Thomas in London

97
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Islamabad Kingdom Brunel

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Tunnels, bridges railway lines and ships

98
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Statute of Rhuddlan

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1284 - Kind Edward I - annexed Wales to Crown if England

99
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Conway and Carrnarvon

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Castles busy to maintain power of K Edward I of England (who annexed Wales)

100
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When last Welsh rebellions defeated?

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Middle of 15th cent / K Edward I of England

101
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Battle of Bannockburn

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Middle Ages 1314 Scottish defeat English under Robert the Bruce

102
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Ireland in MId Ages

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1200 the English ruled the Pale

103
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Middle Ages Wars Abroad

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  1. Crusades

2. 100 years war. Leave France in 1450s

104
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Most famous battle in 100 years war?

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Agincourt 1415 K Henry 5s outnumbered army defeats the French

105
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Who used feudalism

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Norman’s

106
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Language in Middle Ages

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King and nobles spoke Norman French. Peasants spoke Anglo Saxon.

Park/beauty French

Cow/apple/summer Anglo

1400 written docs English

Scott’s Gaelic

107
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John Barbour

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Wrote the Bruce about b of bannockburn . Wrote in Gaelic

108
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War of Roses 1455

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House of Lancaster (red) v House if York (white)

109
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Battle of Bosworth Field

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Last battle in War of Roses 1485. Richard 3 of York was killed and Henry Tudor of Lancaster became Henry 7. Henry 7 then married Richards neice Elizabeth of York

110
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Reformation

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During Henry 8 - against pope and Roman Catholic Church

111
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Wales during Henry 8

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Formally united with England by Act of Govt for Wales

112
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Edward 6

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After Henry 8 - strong Protestant - Book it Common prayer

113
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Blood Mary

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Half sister of Edward 6 - catholic

114
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Elizabeth I

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Half sister of Mary takes over (daughter of Anne Boleyn. Protestant ).

Reestablished Church of England

1588 sp armada

115
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Reformation in Scotland

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Protestant parliament abolish pope authority (but not a state church)

116
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Mary Stuart (q of Scots)

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Q of Scotland - week old - France -husband murdered and she was suspected so fled to England - gave throne to Protestant son James 6 of Scotland. Elizabeth 1st suspected her of trying to steal throne and kept prisoner and executed

117
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Golden Hind

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Sir F Drakes ship. One of first to circumnavigate globe

118
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James 6 Scotland

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Took over after Elizabeth I as she didn’t have a son. Because K James 1 of England

King James Bible

119
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What was Ireland like during Tudor’s as Stuart’s period?

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Almost all Catholic. Henry 8 took title of King if Ireland - rebellions - land taken away in Ulster

120
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James 1 and son Charles 1

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Divine Right of Kings

121
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Charles I

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Had to recall parliament when he faced trouble with Scotland 1640 - Tried to impose prayer book - unrest

122
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Ireland during the civil war

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Rebellion when growing power of puritans - Parliament demand control Of English a army. Charles 1 Reacts by trying to arrest 5 leaders . Led to civil war 1642

123
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Battle Marston Moor and Naseby

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Last battle English Civil War - parliament defeat King. Executed 1649

124
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Republic

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End of Civil war “commonwealth” Oliver Cromwell

125
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Scottish response to civil war

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Had not agreed to Charles 1 execution and wanted Charles 2 to be king so crowned K of Scotlan. Tried to take on Cromwell but taken out.

126
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Battles of Dubar and Battles of Worcester

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Cromwell beats Charles 2 and Charles escapes oak tree fled to Europe post civil war

127
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Richard

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After Cromwell Lord protector. Useless

128
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Restoration / Church of England reestablished

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1660 - parliament invite Charles 2 back. Then plague, Great Fire written about by Samuel Pepys

129
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Royal Society under what king

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Charles 2

130
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K James 2 in England Wales and Ireland and King James 7 of Scotland

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Came after Charles 2 who didn’t have legit children - favours roman catholic’s arrested some bishops. Daughter both Protestant but then had a son

131
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Glorious Revolution

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James 2s daughter Mary was married to cousin William of Orange and I’m aged England’ without resistance as James fled to France and William became William3

Laws passed are beg of constitutional monarchy / ministers become more important/ still low voting

132
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James 2

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Changed his mind and tried to take back throne from William 3 but William won at Battle it Boyne Ireland 1690

133
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Battle of Boyne

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In the glorious revolution .william 3 beats James 2. Led to restrictions on catholic’s

134
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Killiecrankie

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Attempt at armed rebellion in support for James in Scotland. Resulted in Scottish clans to formally accept William as King but Macdonalds of Glenvoe were killed bc too slow

135
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Bill of Rights

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1689 - parliament said king or queen must be Protestant. Elect parliament every 3 years. Beginning of party politics

136
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First Jews

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1656

137
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Hugenots

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1680 to 1720

138
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Act or Treatt of Union in Scotland

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1707

139
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After Queen Anne (no children)

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Partliament chose German George 1st - nearest Protestant relative. Attempt by Scott is jacobites to our James 2s son back but failed

140
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George 2

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Faced challenge getting throne because people wanted to put a Stuart King back on the throne (Charles Edward Stuart) aka Bonnie Prince Charles but defeated at Battle of Culloden

141
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Battle of Culloden

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George 2 beats Charles Edward Stuart. The clans lose power after Culloden And highland clearances in Scot

142
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Robert Burns

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Scottish poet Auld Lang Syne

143
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B of Trafalgar

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V France and Spain

144
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HMS Victory

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Nelsons ship

145
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Battle of Waterloo

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1815 ended French wars - Wellington was Iron Duke later PM

146
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When Ireland Unified

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Act of Union 1800

147
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Crosses

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St Andrew - diagonal white on blue

St Pat diagonal red on white

148
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1853 to 1913

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13m emigrants

149
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Irish Home Rule

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1913 - Propose self rule but still part of U.K. postponed WW1 but didn’t want to wit Easter Rising 1916. 1921 peace treaty 1922 2 countie/north Protestant Irish Free State republic in 1949

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