BBC presenter says Queen Mother was 'ghastly bigot
600ft jellyfish crop circle found in Oxfordshire field
Britain's water mills given role in clean energy generation
Britain's rudest place names
Huge Iron Age haul of coins found
The Bethnal Green Disaster
Google Earth reveals fish trap made from rocks 1,000 years ago off British coast
Queen Elizabeth II rules world's worst copyright regime
10 British Disasters From Recent Times
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling
FixMyStreet and FixMyStreet Canada.
George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house. The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.
Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England. Huge database of photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps, art objects, sound recordings, and video clips tells the stories of people who migrated to England in the last two hundred years.
Freecycle Groups in the UK
The state has 266 ways to enter your home
BBC - Interactive British Timeline
Design Museum London
The British School Uniform Galleries
BBC NEWS - Native American DNA found in UK
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ensure that cities between Birmingham and Newcastle, especially Manchester, are included on the BBC Weather Map
A brief history of British Holiday Camps
Myths of British ancestry
A United Kingdom? Maybe
Dickens' London Map
Britain for Americans
Utopia Britannica. British Utopian Experiments 1325 - 1945.
Revealed: My life with the Royals - by Beatrice's ex
MoneySavingExpert.com. Great site for people in the UK.
Help build a public UK postcode database
I Eat Rubbish - passive debris collector floating on the thames river, eats equivalent of 800,000 plastic bottles a year
The Map of Early Modern London
Jedi census phenomenon. A phenomenon in which 390,000 British citizens listed their religion as Jedi Knight on a 2001 census form, which made Jedi the fourth-largest religion in England and Wales. See also Jedi census statistics.
Peter Dench Photographry - Drinking of England
Virtual tour of 10 Downing Street
The Sun Online - News: One in ten Britons is a shoplifter
London-on-Sea: the future of a city in decay
First female Beefeater appointed
Mysterious Britain, a guide to the legends, folklore, myths and mysterious places of Britain
Sealand is for sale (or "transfer")
Britains stupidest call centre customers
United Nations of Britain
Odd tourist queries revealed
Panoramic Pictures - England
London's Transport Museum
Beach Huts
English Accents and Dialects
Fears over Battersea Power Station chimneys and Battersea Power Station on Flickr
Historic UK phone books put online
List of Strange Things - An American in London
Buildings that bless the seaside
Walks in and around London photo gallery
Brighton photos - street scenes, coastal scenes, piers, skylines and architecture photographs taken around Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The longest officially-recognised place name in the United Kingdom.
Rude Britain - Wikipedia
Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Ole-Biscuitbarrel. A candidate for the British parliament in 1981. I never knew this!
Scottish Seaside Entertainment
The Romans in Britain - 100BC to AD450. The history of the Romans in Britain - 100BC to AD450. Along with insights into Roman life, the military and how the Romans changed Britain.
British Newspapers: News in UK national / local media. All the British press online.
Yorkshire Dales
Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race
Hadrian's Wall Country Website
The Great Stink Of London
Subterranean rivers of London
Collect Britain - Putting history in place
Live Webcams in England
Britain for Americans
Historic Ales of Scotland
London's traditional and historic pubs
A guide to British pub etiquette
Innocent English: Funny English Mistakes from around the world
The London Oil Fire Pictures
British Panoramics
Scottish Vernacular Dictionary
The British National Lottery - the facts you never knew
How Britain got the Calendar Wrong
Evolution of the English Alphabet in a GIF stylee. Really cool.
Welcome to Whitley Decay 2006 Calender. Text is very small.
History of the Scottish Kilt
Descriptive Maps of London poverty
Rude Britain - 100 of the rudest place names in Britain. Now with added maps. Thanks Rob.
London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2005
Irish Dictionary Online. Translate English to Irish/Gaelic and vice-versa.
English Homophones
Fairground Heritage Trust
OEDILF - The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
Victorian Slang Glossary
Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
History of the English Language
English Currency 959-2000
What Does That Mean. This site is a free lexicon of English idioms, words, and catch phrases from around the world.
Soviet military maps of Britain
Thames Pilot
Line of succession to the British Throne
Medieval London Maps
The Great North. History from my part of the world.
Underground Kent. Underground kent is not just one person nor a organisation, we are a group of people who are interested in underground exploration.
Expatica dot com. You have reached the #1 English-language news & information source for expatriates living in, working in or moving to the Netherlands (Holland), Germany, France, Belgium or Spain. Expatica publishes eight websites and five country-oriented Survival Guides. Join us for news, events, online dating, job searching or house hunting - and make the most of expatriate life in Europe!
Ian's English Calendar. This site is intended to replace handbooks of dates for students of English history and literature. It is also accurate for European history outside of England, with the exception of the period 1582-1752. Students of Continental history will need to follow the link if they wish to date documents from this period.
English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course
Palaeography tutorial. Palaeography is the study of old handwriting. This web tutorial will help you learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800.
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge
screenonline. The definitive guide to Britain's film and TV.
Wales in a bottle
British Library Highlights tour
England, A Narrative History
Travels in Scotland: Castles and Towers
York Minster Virtual Tour
What to See in England
Essentialist Explanations
Historic Royal Palaces
Historic images of British buildings
Scotland's Secret Bunker
Strangest Pubs in Britain
Rude Britain is a 100-long list of the country's most double entendre-riddled towns, villages and streets.
Metropolitan Police History
Free 3D Models of Great Buildings. Includes Newcastle's very own crumbling Byker redevelopment.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Transport for London
Free electoral roll searches. Apparently it's slightly dated but still very handy for tracing people who you know often with phone numbers too.
Vindolanda Tablets Online
Newcastle: Definition and Much More From Answers.com
BBC - Voices. Here is my accent. An English to Geordie translator may be handy for you.
The Virtual Reality Tour of Hull, UK
The Severn Bore Page
English Tongue Twisters
Antique & Historical Maps of Britain
Images of Snowdonia
Great Britain - Old Vintage Antique Postcards
Britain for Americans. A handy guide for Americans about to visit the U.K.
reFLAG. MY ARSE. I'm anything but racist but this idea stinks.
Scottish Panoramic Photographs
On the West Coast of Ireland. More panoramic photographs.
Photographs from one persons travel around the U.K. UK Tour 2005
Scotland's Secret Bunker
Irish Holocaust NSFW
The Best of British - The American's guide to British slang NSFW TEXT
London Map - Interactive map with panoramic photographs of Central London
Interesting English Language Trivia
Reel Streets - British Film Locations 1920's To 1980's
Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England
Collect Britain - Putting History in Place
English Accents and Dialects
The Bible, translated into Glaswegian
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