UK History
The history of the UK as a sovereign state started with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland in 1707. The Union gave rise to the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which shared a single monarch and parliament.
Total questions 3900
Follow
ID1287276995
asked How did british middle and working classes respond to the political freedoms they saw in the US and said it was different from What social change occurred in Great Britain after the working and middle classes learned about US citizens' political rights 26 May 2012 16:08
Peterc14 (supervisor) [1212]
removed Which of the following activities was not an early industry in Great Britain from UK History 26 May 2012 13:06
Fodsky [11]
added What are Britain's social relations to UK History 26 May 2012 05:43
ID1452819217
asked What games did children play in the 1950's and said it was different from What games did children play in Britain 25 May 2012 17:42
Answers
Landis7
Peterc14
Answers.com your mom
The.answer.is...
Madswaq
Edits
Peterc14
Theprismgroup
Ten Tibias
Prioktan918
RHYFOR
Organization
Peterc14
Keith Blair
Prioktan918
Jam499
ModernMode
Questions
Rustinpeace
Lvl24warrior
Eccles-Jordan Trigger
In 1931, the British parliament passed the Statute of Westminster, a law that gave formal recognition to all countries with...
Popularity: 203 • Tools: Recategorize
I am not an expert on the history of UK universities but can I say something about my alma mater University Of Wales Aberystwyth....
Popularity: 200 • Tools: Recategorize
Of course it is real, what a ridiculous question. Buck was born on Primrose Day 2045 as a result an immaculate conception between...
Popularity: 145 • Tools: Recategorize
During the period of US involvement, Britain provided some support. They built the American Air bases in Thailand. Special Forces...
Popularity: 138 • Tools: Recategorize
There must be somebody out there better qualified to answer these questions than me,where are all the teachers and lecturers...
Popularity: 131 • Tools: Recategorize
In fact it was his brother Penniston Topper (1741-1804). The Gentleman's Magazine February 1804 (page 191) has his obituary: "At...
Popularity: 123 • Tools: Recategorize
Yes. Bomb residue has already been confirmed and some terrorist groups are trying to take credit.
Popularity: 115 • Tools: Recategorize
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain because there were many new invention's. There were improvements in agriculture,...
Popularity: 97 • Tools: Recategorize
The simple answer is: They didn't! Great Britain is a union of states; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in much the...
Popularity: 84 • Tools: Recategorize
Irish republican army
Popularity: 84 • Tools: Recategorize
England Wales Scotland North Ireland Canada India South Africa Bermuda British Virgin Islands Australia New Zealand ...
Popularity: 84 • Tools: Recategorize
AnswerThe Statute of Westminister was the final part of the process to grant full independance to Canada.It was supported by the...
Popularity: 83 • Tools: Recategorize
It meant that the British Empire was so huge and covered so many parts of the globe that it was always daylight somewhere in the...
Popularity: 74 • Tools: Recategorize
The first Prime Minister of Great Britain was Robert Walpole. The first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (i.e. the period...
Popularity: 70 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 65 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
"Imperial preference" refers to "preferred", that is reduced, tariffs available to countries or colonies under British rule &/or...
Popularity: 63 • Tools: Recategorize
Britain was concerned that the US would take offence to a "kingdom" being located on its border. Nevertheless, Canada is a...
Popularity: 60 • Tools: Recategorize
The same reason why any country wants to be independent from another: they wanted to be free. They had ruled themselves for some...
Popularity: 59 • Tools: Recategorize
Culturally similar, tensions existed between the US and the UK from the Revolution through the end of the Civil War. WWI and WWII...
Popularity: 58 • Tools: Recategorize
In 1914 women were still regarded as 'belonging' to their husbands and very few worked outside the home, if they did it was as...
Popularity: 58 • Tools: Recategorize
AnswerThe summer of 1940, with the culmination around September 15th.The situation.........Germany has sucessfully invaded most...
Popularity: 55 • Tools: Recategorize
This term refers to those citizens of the United Kingdom who do NOT are not nobles (such as dukes, earls, barons and their wives)...
Popularity: 55 • Tools: Recategorize
That is an absurd length of time in which to describe differences. The differences are manifold. London has grown substantially,...
Popularity: 55 • Tools: Recategorize
Yes, it was, and is now called Sri Lanka. Famous for it's tea crops.
Popularity: 54 • Tools: Recategorize
It was a day of preparation leading the next day to the partition of Pakistan from the United Kingdom's Colonial Empire of India...
Popularity: 53 • Tools: Recategorize
It was abolished in the UK in 1965 for all crimes except treason and piracy, and in 1998 it was entirely abolished in the...
Popularity: 49 • Tools: Recategorize
No, not exactly. The Scottish flag is a blue background with a white diagonal cross. It is part of the Union flag for Britain....
Popularity: 46 • Tools: Recategorize
Last battleWednesday April 16, 1746. The Battle of Culloden. Fought between the Highlanders loyal to Bonnie Prince Charlie and...
Popularity: 45 • Tools: Recategorize
Robert Hooke discovered cells under a microscope in 1665. He took a sliver of cork and called the small encasements he saw,...
Popularity: 43 • Tools: Recategorize
To help pay for defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. See...
Popularity: 41 • Tools: Recategorize
Work on the tower started in 1961, with the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, officially opening the 'Post Office Tower' on...
Popularity: 41 • Tools: Recategorize
1. Only one God will be worshipped throughout the whole of England and there will be only one faith. This will preserve peace...
Popularity: 41 • Tools: Recategorize
Through many uprisings , which mostly failed, through politics , through guerrilla warfare and through compromises and agreements.
Popularity: 40 • Tools: Recategorize
it gave more people voting rights
Popularity: 38 • Tools: Recategorize
Great BritainThe British Isles is made up of two large islands - Great Britain and the island of Ireland, and over 1000 small...
Popularity: 38 • Tools: Recategorize
When she came to the throne in 1837, most people wouldn't have bet tuppence on the future of the Monarchy, because it had become...
Popularity: 38 • Tools: Recategorize
King George IIIGeorge III was King of BRITAIN not just England. Get it right.
Popularity: 37 • Tools: Recategorize
Nelson sought a conclusive battle against the larger combined French and Spanish Fleets with the full knowledge that his officers...
Popularity: 36 • Tools: Recategorize
Yes
Popularity: 34 • Tools: Recategorize
usally up to 2 years with a retainer on for about another 2 years after
Popularity: 32 • Tools: Recategorize
Great Britain's war with France meant Napoleon needed money.
Popularity: 32 • Tools: Recategorize
Well most of the Pakistanis are Indo-Iranians which are a mixture of Iranian and Dravidian. If you go to a state or province in...
Popularity: 32 • Tools: Recategorize
AnswerQueen Victoria of the United Kingdom, whose names were Alexandrina Victoria, was born in Kensington Palace, London on 24th...
Popularity: 31 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 29 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
The Victorian Era describes the reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, who reigned from 1837 to 1901. This was...
Popularity: 29 • Tools: Recategorize
Prime Minister Asquith followed by David Lloyd George King George V was the monarch
Popularity: 29 • Tools: Recategorize
I believe that it was. I used to ring at St Mary's Southampton, and when we ended the evening practice we would always chime the...
Popularity: 28 • Tools: Recategorize
Antoni van leeuwenhoek in 1675. Robert Hooke was the first British to discover a cell under the microscope. An advance discovery...
Popularity: 28 • Tools: Recategorize
Bermuda still is owned by the United Kingdom. It's the oldest and most populated remaining overseas territory that the U.K. has....
Popularity: 28 • Tools: Recategorize
Horatio Nelson.
Popularity: 27 • Tools: Recategorize
arcepello
Popularity: 27 • Tools: Recategorize
Buckingham Palace was built as a town house by the Duke of Buckingham in 1702 and sold to King George III in 1761. Remodelling of...
Popularity: 26 • Tools: Recategorize
In 1932 almost 1 out of 4 Britain was out of work. Many were on the dole (government relief for the unemployed). Another Answer:...
Popularity: 26 • Tools: Recategorize
Mary and Louis Leakey were palaeontologists responsible for the discovery of many fossils of early hominids. They are most well...
Popularity: 26 • Tools: Recategorize
In 1776 the British monarch was King George III, who reigned from 25 October 1760 - 29 January 1820, In 1776 he was King of The...
Popularity: 25 • Tools: Recategorize
Robert Hooke
Popularity: 25 • Tools: Recategorize
When Britain declared war on Germany, on 3rd September 1939, the Prime Minister was Neville Chanberlain. He resigned on 10th May...
Popularity: 25 • Tools: Recategorize
The phrase is attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, the British prime minister from 1874 to 1881. His policies spurred the expansion...
Popularity: 25 • Tools: Recategorize
AnswerIn a word, no. While the era before the Victorian era, the Georgian era, was characterised in large part by weak theism in...
Popularity: 23 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 22 • Tools: Recategorize
Great Britain conquered India by having its army in the right place at the right time. A civil war was going on between two...
Popularity: 22 • Tools: Recategorize
it really depended on how wealthy you were or were you lived for example if you were poor you were sent to work and treated like...
Popularity: 21 • Tools: Recategorize
India, Pakistan, Burma and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
Popularity: 21 • Tools: Recategorize
One of William Wilberforce's main accomplishments was the abolition of slavery. Wilberforce is well remembered for using his...
Popularity: 20 • Tools: Recategorize
Coal mining,Chimney Sweeping,Walnut Selling, servants and lamp lighter .
Popularity: 20 • Tools: Recategorize
Traditionally this is normally attributed to Prince Albert of Sax-Coburg (Quenn Victoria's husband). An engraving of the royal...
Popularity: 20 • Tools: Recategorize
The labor supply increasedan increase in the labor supplyMechanization of farmwork meant less human labor was needed, thus...
Popularity: 20 • Tools: Recategorize
India was nicknamed The Jewel in the CrownThe term Jewel in the Crown was generally attached to India as a reference to its...
Popularity: 20 • Tools: Recategorize
the slaves in great Britain had to work hard on the slave ships and do what people say really
Popularity: 19 • Tools: Recategorize
They wanted expansion and control Spain was getting a big chunk of the New World. It was "new" and untamed. There was a sort of...
Popularity: 19 • Tools: Recategorize
In the early hours of October 31, 1971, a bomb exploded on the 31st floor (curiously, no one ever claimed claimed responsibility...
Popularity: 18 • Tools: Recategorize
First Prime Minister of Great BritainThe first prime minister was Robert Walpole (1676-1745). His period of office lasted from...
Popularity: 18 • Tools: Recategorize
Services began on 10 January 1863 on the Metropolitan Railway; most of that initial route is now part of the Hammersmith &...
Popularity: 18 • Tools: Recategorize
146
Popularity: 18 • Tools: Recategorize
This phrase was used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio broadcast in December 1940 in which he pledged to supply...
Popularity: 18 • Tools: Recategorize
Money. It's an addictive drug which made Great Britain a lot of money. It's the same reason that tobacco was the major cash crop...
Popularity: 18 • Tools: Recategorize
The Sugar Act was a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act passed by the British Parliment in 1733. Under the original...
Popularity: 17 • Tools: Recategorize
Unity Mitford
Popularity: 17 • Tools: Recategorize
In many cases the rags were cleaned and used to make paper. High Linen content was used in early paper and one of the primary...
Popularity: 17 • Tools: Recategorize
Indian became an independant country in 1947.
Popularity: 17 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
i don't know y they is making me di thsi cuz i don't no da answer im tryna figure itout but they ain't giving me nothing...
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
The last executions in England happened on 13th August 1964. Peter Anthony Allen and his accomplice, Gwynne Owen Evans were...
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
The 1800 Act of Union dissolved the Irish parliament and installed 100 new Irish MPs at Westminster, thus instating direct...
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
they were expected to be brave, loyal and worked hard at labour jobs to provide for the family.
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
"Don't go all wobbly on me now George" is a famous quotation from Margaret Thatcher, directed at George H Bush.
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, had a Christmas tree brought to London in 1848, following a tradition from his native...
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, at that time First Lord of the Treasury, of the UK.
Popularity: 15 • Tools: Recategorize
The Victorian age began when Queen Victoria ascended to the throne on 20 June 1837 and ended when she died on 22 January 1901.
Popularity: 15 • Tools: Recategorize
Yes, it was a British creation by Barnes Wallis that was an earth penetrator and came as the Tall Boy and the later Grand Slam...
Popularity: 15 • Tools: Recategorize
John Smith and his family spent countless summer holidays on Iona and it was a place he lovely deeply. His widow said he was at...
Popularity: 14 • Tools: Recategorize
In the summer of 1939 the estimated population of Great Britain (ie. England, Wales and Scotland) was 46,467,000 (46 Million 467...
Popularity: 14 • Tools: Recategorize
Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland reigned from 20th June 1837 until 22nd January 1901. During her reign, the Prime...
Popularity: 14 • Tools: Recategorize
They did so by spliting Villeneuve's formation to capture more than two thirds of his fleet. By having a squadron stationed near...
Popularity: 14 • Tools: Recategorize
AnswerIt started in 1907 when Baden Powell tried an experimental Boy Scout Camp in July of 1907. Patrols started to spring up all...
Popularity: 13 • Tools: Recategorize
