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2 March – John Gilbert Winant takes up post as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom in succession to Joseph P. Kennedy; he will serve for 5 years. 11 March President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into United States law, allowing the country to supply military equipment to Britain.
List of prisons in the United Kingdom is a list of all 141 current prisons as of 2024 in the United Kingdom spread across the three UK legal systems of England and Wales (122 prisons), Scotland, (15 prisons) and Northern Ireland (4 prisons). Also included are a number of historical prisons no longer in current use.
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1941. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland .
World War II civilian prisoners held by the United Kingdom (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "British prisoners and detainees" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Even before 1983, prisoners in the UK weren't allowed to vote, which had been decided with the Forfeiture Act 1870. [3] On 10 December 2012, the Council of Europe advised that the United Kingdom could not continue with its 'blanket ban', observing that one of the available options in the draft bill would contravene the ruling against the UK. [4 ...
The Sonderfahndungsliste G.B. ("Special Search List Great Britain") was a secret list of prominent British residents to be arrested, produced in 1940 by the SS as part of the preparation for the proposed invasion of Britain. After the war, the list became known as The Black Book. [1]
The Civil Defence (Specified Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 1940 0 No. 92: The Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Interned Persons Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1940 0 No. 93: The Civil Defence (Revision of Code) Order (Northern Ireland) 1940 No. 94: 0 No. 95
List of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom is an incomplete list of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom. Statutory rules and orders were the predecessor of statutory instruments and they formed the secondary legislation of England , Scotland and Wales prior to 1948 and the coming into force of the Statutory ...