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Norman Angell (1872–1967), British internationalist and economist; William Beveridge (1879–1963), economist and social reformer; Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), economist and historian; Colin Clark (1905–1989), British and Australian economist; Ronald Coase (1910–2013), Nobel Prize–winning economist; Martin Ellison, consultant to the Bank ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century British Jews and Category:19th-century British LGBTQ people and Category:19th-century British women The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
Between 1951 and 1963, wages rose by 72% while prices rose by 45%, enabling people to afford more consumer goods than ever before. [193] Between 1955 and 1967, the average earnings of weekly-paid workers increased by 96% and those of salaried workers by 95%, while prices rose by about 45% in the same period. [ 194 ]
One of the most famous 18th-century Bengali immigrants to Britain was Sake Dean Mahomed, a captain of the East India Company. In 1810, he founded London's first Indian restaurant, the Hindoostane Coffee House. He is also claimed as the person who introduced shampoo and therapeutic massage to Britain. [62]
The poll resulted in nominees including Guy Fawkes, who was executed because of his role in the plot to blow up the Parliament of England; Oliver Cromwell, who created a republican British state (the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland); Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown due to his part ...
John Reid (1721–1807), British general and musical composer, who left a bequest to fund a chair in Music at the University of Edinburgh; Acting Sergeant John Rennie (1920–1943), posthumously awarded the George Cross; Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness (1906–1965), British brigadier, 1st Commander of the Sri Lanka Army