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Acts of Union: England and Wales

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1540~

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Acts of Union: England and Scotland

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1707

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Acts of Union: England and Scotland share monarch

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1603

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Acts of Union: Great Britain + Ireland

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1801 (U.K. of G.B.)

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Southern Ireland leaves, becomes independent

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1921

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Act of Supremacy in 1558

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King Henry 8th declared himself head of Church of England

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Book of Common Prayer

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number of prayer books of CoE and other Anglican churches

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Thomas Cramner

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leader of English Reformation

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regicide

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killing the king

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life peers

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title that is not inheritable

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hereditary peers

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people with ‘royal blood’, title is inherited

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consort

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spouse of royalty, usually not in line for throne

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Lady Jane Grey

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occupied the English throne for nine days

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Henry 8ths wives:

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Catherine, Anne, Jane etc.

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Maastricht Treaty in 1992

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changed the European Community to European Union

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Clause 4

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nationalization of industries

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Magna Carta

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first document forced onto an English King by a group of subjects (barons) in an attempt to limit the king’s power by law

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Laissez-faire

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transactions between private parties are free from state intervention

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The Butler Act

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law prohibiting school teachers to deny Biblical account of man’s origin, prevented the evolutionary theory taught

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Beveridge Report

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influential document in the founding of the welfare state

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Great Plague

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massive outbreak of disease in UK that killed 20% of London’s population

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Great Fire of London

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swept through the central parts of the city, lasted for 5 days

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The Glorious Revolution

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overthrow of King James II by union of Parliamentarians, William of Orange succeeded the throne as first constitutional monarch

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Pax Britannica

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Period of relative peace in Europe when the British Empire was at its peak, had control of key naval trade routes, unchallenged sea power

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The Great Depression

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the decade post-WWII, crash of the stock market on Wall Street

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Treaty of Versailles

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one of the peace treaties at the end of WWI

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Act of Settlement

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specified that monarchs must be protestant

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Bill of Rights

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passed by Parliament to William and Mary inviting them to become joint sovereigns of Enland

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the Boer Wars

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two wars fought between UK and two independent Boer republics (Orange Free State and South African Republic)

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Battle of Culloden

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final confrontation of Jacobite Rising

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Hundred Years’ War

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series of separate wars lasting for a hundred years between two royal houses for the French throne. Henry the 8th sold France to Calim

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New Amsterdam

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Dutch colonial settlement, later became New York City

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Entente cordiale

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series of agreements signed between the UK and the French Republic

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Easter Rising

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aimed to end British rule in Ireland

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North-South divide

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refers to economical and cultural differences b. Southern and Northern England

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cenotaph

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list with names of soldiers who died in WWI

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Mercantilism

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economic theory, export as much as you can

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The Bismarck

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most famous German warship in WWII

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Good Friday/Belfast Agreement

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political development in N-Ireland peace process

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sympathy strikes

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industrial action made by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers

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Schengen Agreement

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led to the creation of Europe’s borderless Schengen Area

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Post-war consensus

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time b. WWII and Thatcher’s election as PM

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Clement Attlee

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PM from 1945-1951, Leader of the Labour Party from 1935-1955

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M. Thatcher

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PM from 1979-1990, first female in office, served longer than any other

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T. Blair

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PM from 1997-2007, threw out Clause 4

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G. Brown

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D. Cameron

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Current PM

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Thatcherism

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the government should be doing little, let it run itself

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Arthur Scargill

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miners’ strike for a year

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Blair’s Third Way

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refers to various political positions which try to reconcile right wing and left win politics

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T. May

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Conservative politician, current Home Secretary

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National Health Service

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many things for free

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A. Smith

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Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economics

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Franchise

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the right to vote

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Privy council

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has 400 members who only meet when a monarch dies, to confirm his death

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Chancellor of the Exchequer

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minister of Finance

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Hung parliament

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occurs when neither major political party has absolute majority of seats in the parliament

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appeasement

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diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power

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autocratic

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person(e.g. monarch) ruling with unlimited authority

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Sinn Féin

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political party in Ireland, Gerry Adams is the president

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Backbencher

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newly elected parliamentary member

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'’shadow cabinet’’

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parliamentary member specialized in finance, health, if a party loses

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Civil list

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list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government

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J. Callaghan

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once PM and Leader of Labour Party

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The Falkland Islands

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self-governing British overseas territory, the Brits won the war

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Aneurin Bevan

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Welsh Labour Party politician, early 20th c., rights of the working people

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Deregulation

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removal or simplification of government rules and regulations that constrain market forces

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Winter of Discontent

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winter that saw many strikes, e.g. grave diggers, truck drivers, rubbish collectors

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O. Cromwell

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military and political leader, involved in turning England into a republican Commonwealth, Lord Protector (1653-1658)

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Commonwealth

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alliance of Britain’s former colonies+free trade association

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A. Toffler

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American, wrote ‘‘The Third Wave’’

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John Locke

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‘Father of Liberalism’ English philosopher and physician, Enlightenment thinker

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7/7 terrorism

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series of coordinated suicide attacks in London

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Democratic Unionist Party

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larger unionist party in N-Ireland

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Rev. Ian Paisley

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founded the Democratic Unionist Party

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'’permanent underclass’’ (2011 riots)

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lowest possible position in class hierarchy

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The Ghost of Britain past

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the time when GB was an empire

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Nick Clegg

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deputy PM, Chairman of liberal democratic party

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credit crunch

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economic crisis, G. Brown was blamed

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national referendum

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entire electorate is asked to accept or reject a particular proposal

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Fabian socialists

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association of British socialists advocation the establishment of democratic socialism by gradual reforms within the law

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