Saturday, October 1, 2005

United Kingdom

Scottish Urban Legends

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


Walton sextuplets

Still a handful for Mum, the Walton sextuplets at 23

Walton sextuplets at 23


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


Ratcliffe Power Station
Michael Kenna - Ratcliffe Power Station


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


The Great British Venn Diagram
The Great British Venn Diagram


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


Prudhoe Castle
Liam's Pictures from Old Books. Over 680 scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books, all public domain, most with multiple high-resolution versions.


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


I wonder if I will ever get the hang of it
Ambigues English. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn.


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


Maunsell Sea Forts
Maunsell Sea Forts. The Thames Estuary Army Forts, designed by Guy Maunsell, were constructed in 1942 to provide anti-aircraft fire within the Thames Estuary area (in Britain).


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


Cool
Brighton and Hove's Daddy Longlegs


The Severn Bore Page

English Tongue Twisters

Antique & Historical Maps of Britain

Images of Snowdonia


Can I just add at this point that I love the new Doctor Who
The British Police Box.


Great Britain - Old Vintage Antique Postcards

Britain for Americans. A handy guide for Americans about to visit the U.K.


Remarkable
The Falkirk Wheel


reFLAG. MY ARSE. I'm anything but racist but this idea stinks.

Scottish Panoramic Photographs

On the West Coast of Ireland. More panoramic photographs.


Derelict
Derelict London.com. Great site with loads of great photographs. Scroll down to the bottom for the different categories.


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


Is this right?
Just so you know. Drawing the Union Jack Correctly


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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