He's been living in England for several years but he's returning stateside next month. |
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Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has used a liturgy in English. |
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The region's secondary school attendance is the lowest in England at around 125,000, with the next lowest in the East Midlands. |
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Louis left England as agreed and joined the Albigensian Crusade in the south of France, bringing the war to an end. |
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Richard of Conisburgh was executed following his involvement in the Southampton Plot to depose Henry V of England in favour of the Earl of March. |
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The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. |
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Scotland is half the size of England and Wales in area, but has roughly the same length of coastline. |
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Henry II had to get Marie out of her convent first, which had been a common practice in England since the Normans. |
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The relationship between the nations of England and Scotland by the 1280s was one of relatively harmonious coexistence. |
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Meanwhile, support for Louis' campaign was diminishing in France, and he concluded that the war in England was lost. |
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On 22 June 1340, Edward and his fleet sailed from England and arrived off the Zwyn estuary in the next day. |
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This change in the power of the papacy in England is demonstrated by the statutes of Praemunire. |
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Cromwell continued to gain the king's favour when he designed and pushed through the Laws in Wales Acts, uniting England and Wales. |
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Returning to England from the continent in 1514 or 1515, Cromwell soon entered Wolsey's service. |
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Alfred returned to England in 1036 to visit his mother and perhaps to challenge Harold as king. |
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Another consequence of William's invasion was the sundering of the formerly close ties between England and Scandinavia. |
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Henry set about extending royal justice in England to reassert his authority and spent time in Normandy shoring up support amongst the barons. |
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He then took the decision to sail for England in January 1153 to meet Stephen. |
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But when Eleanor was divorced from Louis and married Henry II of England in 1152, the duchy passed to the English Crown. |
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During his ten years' reign, he was in England for no more than six months, and was totally absent for the last five years. |
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In 1348, the Black Death struck England with full force, killing a third or more of the country's population. |
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The young King inherited a difficult situation, with over half of England occupied by the rebels. |
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In the Imperial Election of 1519, the Kings of Spain, France, and England fought for the imperial title. |
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In February 1340, Edward returned to England to try to raise more funds and also deal with political difficulties. |
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The domestic and dynastic difficulties faced by England and France in this period quieted the war for a decade. |
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Among the most immediate consequences of the Black Death in England was a shortage of farm labour, and a corresponding rise in wages. |
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Edward III of England married John of Gaunt, his third surviving son, to Henry's heiress Blanche of Lancaster. |
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The wars heralded the end of the medieval period in England and the movement towards the Renaissance. |
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The adaptation of the setting for Richard III to a 1930s fascist England in Ian McKellen's 1995 film, however, did not sit well with historians. |
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Francis attempted to invade England in the summer of 1545, but reached only the Isle of Wight before being repulsed. |
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Harold's sons were meanwhile raiding the southwest of England from a base in Ireland. |
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William returned to England in December 1067 and marched on Exeter, which he besieged. |
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A papal embassy arrived in England during this period, asking that William do fealty for England to the papacy, a request that William rejected. |
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The immediate consequence of William's death was a war between his sons Robert and William over control of England and Normandy. |
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Henry's mother, firstly married to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, was the eldest daughter of Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy. |
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The prospective Flemish invasion forced Henry to return to England in early July. |
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The term Angevin Empire was coined by Kate Norgate in her 1887 publication, England under the Angevin Kings. |
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Henry was about to sail for England to pursue his claim when his lands were attacked. |
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Legislative power was vested in the Parliament of Great Britain, which replaced both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. |
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Richard would surrender the kingdom of England to Henry, who would then give it back as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Henry the Young King and the Count of Flanders planned to land in England to assist the rebellion led by the Earl of Leicester. |
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Berengaria had almost as much difficulty in making the journey home as her husband did, and she did not see England until after his death. |
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Although York's Sheriff office is the oldest in England it is now a purely ceremonial post. |
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Yet, the French never invaded England and France's King John II died in captivity in England. |
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From the first, he made it clear that he would rule England as the head of a united nation. |
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He besieged and captured Melun in November, returning to England shortly thereafter. |
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After James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne in 1603, Sweyn's descendants became monarchs of England again. |
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While England was accustomed to change her kings, the French largely adhered to theirs. |
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After the Norman Conquest, the kings of England were vassals of the kings of France for their possessions in France. |
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At the end of April 1337, Philip of France was invited to meet the delegation from England but refused. |
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In 1538 evidence came to light that Pole family members in England had been in communication with Reginald. |
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Throughout this period, England confronted repeated raids by pirates that heavily damaged trade and the navy. |
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National feeling that emerged from the war unified both France and England further. |
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The population of England was reduced by 20 to 33 percent due to plague in the same period. |
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They defeated Earl Ralph at Hereford, and Harold had to collect forces from nearly all of England to drive the invaders back into Wales. |
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His restored prestige led to him knighting the young King Edward III of England before his coronation. |
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In 1408, Percy invaded England once more and was killed at the Battle of Bramham Moor. |
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Following the White Ship disaster, England entered a period of prolonged instability known as The Anarchy. |
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Henry was the last king of England to win his throne on the field of battle. |
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From that time Northumberland served the Yorkist crown, helping to defend northern England and maintain its peace. |
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Medieval fleets, in England as elsewhere, were almost entirely composed of merchant ships enlisted into naval service in time of war. |
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Henry now hoped to unite the crowns of England and Scotland by marrying his son Edward to James' successor, Mary. |
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The nobility of England were part of a single Norman culture and many had lands on both sides of the channel. |
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In 1086 William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey listing all the landholders in England along with their holdings. |
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Cricket has long been a popular sport in the Northeast of England and is said to date back to Elizabethan times. |
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William remained in England after his coronation and tried to reconcile the native magnates. |
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He left England in the hands of his supporters, including Richard fitzGilbert and William de Warenne, as well as Lanfranc. |
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William returned to England later in 1075 to deal with the Danish threat, leaving his wife Matilda in charge of Normandy. |
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Also, in England no other coinage was allowed, while on the continent other coinage was considered legal tender. |
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Besides taxation, William's large landholdings throughout England strengthened his rule. |
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Under the Plantagenets, England was transformed, although this was only partly intentional. |
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It was referred by Charles I of England to the House of Lords, who called for judicial assistance. |
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Henry's reign saw significant legal changes, particularly in England and Normandy. |
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These measures were successful in improving his income, but on his return to England in the 1160s Henry took further steps. |
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This republican union was dissolved automatically with the restoration of King Charles II to the thrones of England and Scotland. |
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In Scotland, he received much criticism from local residents, but in England he was cheered for his action. |
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Geoffrey took Caen and Argentan without resistance, but now had to defend Robert's possessions in England against Stephen. |
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Stephen was captured in February 1141 at the Battle of Lincoln, which prompted the collapse of his authority in both England and Normandy. |
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France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America. |
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Lawyers in both England and America learned the law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century. |
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In the late 14th century, naval warfare with England was conducted largely by hired Scots, Flemish and French merchantmen and privateers. |
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With the help of Philip, John went to invade England and incite rebellion against Richard's justiciars. |
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He was the third of five sons of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. |
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His elder brother Henry the Young King was crowned king of England during his father's lifetime. |
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With nearly the entire nation freshly ravaged by the Vikings, England was in a desperate state. |
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Richard caused himself to be crowned King of Cyprus, and Berengaria Queen of England and of Cyprus, too. |
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Following the Norman invasion in the 12th century, England claimed sovereignty over Ireland. |
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There is no evidence for cult being paid to Bede in England in the 8th century. |
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However, after the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under King James VI and I, peace was largely established. |
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One reason for the change of strategy towards Scotland was a growing concern for the relationship between England and France. |
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King John granted the city's first charter in 1212, confirming trading rights in England and Europe. |
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During the wars with France, opposition emerged in England against perceived injustices by a papacy largely controlled by the French crown. |
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Only England and the Nordic countries did not take part in the wholesale reception of Roman law. |
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Sigismund left England several months later, having signed the Treaty of Canterbury, acknowledging English claims to France. |
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This victory postponed Danish conquests in England for fifteen years, but raids on Wessex continued. |
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A special grouping are the Anglican churches descended from the Church of England and organized in the Anglican Communion. |
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The forest laws were introduced, leading to the setting aside of large sections of England as royal forest. |
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From 1689 to 1948 there was no differentiation between the government of England and government in Wales. |
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He was apparently accepted as king by some or all of the Danes in England and in 903 he induced the East Anglian Danes to wage war on Edward. |
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The Huguenots held the southwest and were allied to England and the princes of Germany. |
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Kent and southeast England would have been an attractive target because of its wealthy minsters, often located on exposed coastal locations. |
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Charles IV formally renewed the treaty in 1326, promising Scotland that if England invaded them France would support the Scots. |
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Finding their position in mainland Europe precarious, they crossed to England in 330 ships in two divisions. |
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This is an indication of the very high percentage of slaves in England at this time. |
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Alfred undoubtedly exaggerated for dramatic effect the abysmal state of learning in England during his youth. |
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Peter appealed to England and Aquitaine's Black Prince for help, but none was forthcoming, forcing Peter into exile in Aquitaine. |
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In August 1415, Henry V sailed from England with a force of about 10,500 and laid siege to Harfleur. |
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When the war ended, England was bereft of its Continental possessions, leaving it with only Calais on the continent. |
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The contacts resulted in a surge in interest in England for commemorating Breton saints. |
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Building on the foundations of his predecessors, he created the most centralised government that England had yet seen. |
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After Eric Bloodaxe's death, all England was ruled by Eadred the grandson of Alfred the Great and so began the machinery of national government. |
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In the summer of 1015, Cnut's fleet set sail for England with a Danish army of perhaps 10,000 in 200 longships. |
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Whether King Sweyn was a heathen or not, he enlisted priests and bishops from England rather than from Hamburg. |
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A Norman lord typically had properties located in a piecemeal fashion throughout England and Normandy, and not in a single geographic block. |
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In Cumbria the M6 runs all the way down the east of the county connecting the very north of England to the Lancashire border. |
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Thus by 1057 the Godwin brothers controlled all of England subordinately apart from Mercia. |
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The House of Tudor ruled the Kingdom of England until 1603, with the death of Elizabeth I, granddaughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. |
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William the Conqueror's son King Henry I of England died in 1135, after his only male heir was killed aboard the White Ship. |
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Once England had been conquered, the Normans faced many challenges in maintaining control. |
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Mary also welcomed the first Russian ambassador to England, creating relations between England and Russia for the first time. |
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Henry VII introduced stability to the financial administration of England by keeping the same financial advisors throughout his reign. |
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During the 15th century civil war raged across England as the Houses of York and Lancaster fought each other for the English throne. |
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Henry's war and Somerset's war with France and Scotland cost England huge sums of money. |
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The strength of the fleet of the Kingdom of England was an important element in the kingdom's power in the 10th century. |
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There are around 345,000 at secondary school in the region, the third highest in England, after South East England and Greater London. |
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Ferdinand's solution was to make his daughter ambassador, allowing her to stay in England indefinitely. |
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He gave a large tribute in money to Philip and swore that all his subjects in France and England would recognise Richard as their lord. |
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By the 14th century, England was also used in reference to the entire island of Great Britain. |
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He made arrangements for the governance of England in early 1067 before returning to Normandy. |
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It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. |
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A decade later, James made the fateful decision to invade England in support of France under the terms of the Auld Alliance. |
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North East England has an oceanic climate with narrower temperature ranges than further south in England. |
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They both became permanent fixtures in Alf Ramsey's 1966 England World Cup winning team. |
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The Norman fleet finally set sail two days later, landing in England at Pevensey Bay on 28 September. |
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Eventually the two houses fought for the throne of England in a series of civil wars, commonly known as the Wars of the Roses. |
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The Danish king had brought a large fleet to England and attacked not only York, but Exeter and Shrewsbury. |
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Representing the Kingdom of England led by Archbishop Thurstan of York, soldiers from Yorkshire defeated the more numerous Scots. |
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William's ability to leave England for an entire year was a sign that he felt that his control of the kingdom was secure. |
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For example, England continued the use of writs, which were not known on the continent. |
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William spent most of his time in England between the Battle of Hastings and 1072, and after that he spent the majority of his time in Normandy. |
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Middleham is notable because Richard III of England spent his childhood there. |
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This distancing of Yorkshire from England led Read to question whether Yorkshire people were really English at all. |
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In 1603, James VI of Scotland became King of England, joining Scotland with England in a personal union. |
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Glamorgan County Cricket Club is the only Welsh participant in the England and Wales County Championship. |
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The couple invaded England and, with Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, captured the king. |
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As a mere duke, William owed allegiance to Philip I of France, whereas in the independent Kingdom of England he could rule without interference. |
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She was born into a powerful ruling class of Normans, who traditionally owned extensive estates in both England and Normandy. |
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In response to Stephen's siege, Henry returned to England again at the start of 1153, braving winter storms. |
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The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. |
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For instance, I had a girlfriend who had just come back from England and was still recovering from the Heathrow injection. |
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Although we are joined with England by land, and we are part of Great Britain, Wales is a country in its own right. |
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At the Olympics Games, Welsh athletes compete alongside those of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland as part of a Great Britain team. |
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In the following year, the Wales and Berwick Act 1746 was repealed and a legal definition of Wales and of the boundary with England was stated. |
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In the 1690s, the economic position of Scotland worsened, and relations between Scotland and England became strained. |
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The Senior Courts of England and Wales is the highest court of first instance as well as an appellate court. |
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The first border between Wales and England was zonal, apart from around the River Wye, which was the first accepted boundary. |
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From that point Wales became a legal unit in its own right, although it remains part of the single jurisdiction of England and Wales. |
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In 1139, Robert and Matilda crossed the channel and arrived in England while Geoffrey kept the pressure on Normandy. |
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London is the capital of England and the whole of the United Kingdom, and is therefore the seat of the United Kingdom's government. |
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In the absence of compensation or a satisfactory reply, he declared war on England in June. |
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The new order oriented most of England and Scandinavia's trade south, toward the Mediterranean and the Orient. |
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In 1259, Henry III of England recognised the legality of French possession of mainland Normandy under the Treaty of Paris. |
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It is the southernmost location in England and the United Kingdom, as well as the most westerly in England. |
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As a result of the expulsion of the Flemings from England in 1303, he gained the support of a major naval power in the North Sea. |
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Despite truces between England and Scotland there were periodic outbreaks of a guerre de course. |
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These systems would form the basis of the Covenanter armies that intervened in the Civil Wars in England and Ireland. |
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Both England and the English language, thus, ultimately derive at least their names from the Angles and Angeln. |
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France, the Netherlands and England each had a long maritime tradition and had been engaging in privateering. |
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As a result of the Union of 1707, no new peerages were created in the Peerage of England or the Peerage of Scotland. |
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In England and Wales parliamentary constituencies remained unchanged throughout the existence of the Parliament. |
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Since the 12th century, the King of England had been technical overlord of the Lordship of Ireland, a papal possession. |
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Political union between England and Scotland was established in 1707 with the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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Norse was also widely spoken in the parts of England which fell under Danish law. |
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The following year, Richard attempted to take the throne of England for himself by joining Philip's expedition against his father. |
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Boniface wrote repeatedly back to England during his missionary efforts, requesting copies of Bede's theological works. |
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It remained part of the Church of England until 1978 when the Anglican Church of Bermuda separated. |
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Mercia was located in central England and broadly corresponds to what is now known as the English Midlands. |
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The sources he had access to gave him less information about the west of England than for other areas. |
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English in England can be divided into four major dialect regions, Southwest English, South East English, Midlands English, and Northern English. |
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Northumbria was disputed between the emerging kingdoms of England and Scotland. |
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And soon after he came home, he gathered his army, and came harrowing into England with more hostility than behoved him. |
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They eventually organised it as the kingdom of England in the face of Viking invasions. |
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The line continues south across the estuary, crossing South West England such that Cornwall and Devon are excluded from Lloegyr. |
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By 700, Brittonic was mainly restricted to North West England and Southern Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Devon, and Brittany. |
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At about the same time, in the colonies which remained linked to the crown, the Church of England began to appoint colonial bishops. |
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According to the 2011 Census, 8,248 people in England stated that Welsh was their first or preferred language. |
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This controversy produced the Free Church of England and, in the United States and Canada, the Reformed Episcopal Church. |
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Between 1746 and 1967, any reference to England in legislation was deemed to include Wales. |
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English law is the common law legal system governing England and Wales, comprising criminal law and civil law. |
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A smaller lighthouse at Dover, England also exists as a ruin about half the height of the original. |
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London became the principal North Sea port, with migrants arriving from England and abroad. |
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Burnet was a bishop chronicling how England became Protestant, and his use of the term is invariably pejorative. |
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It borders South East England, South West England, North West England, Yorkshire and Humber, East of England and Wales. |
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Today the Viking legacy can still be found in the language and place names of Northeast England and in the DNA of its people. |
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In December 2009, Natural England proposed extending the National Park in the direction of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. |
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In this view, held by the majority of historians until the mid to late twentieth century, much of England was cleared of its prior inhabitants. |
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An estimated 8000 Normans and other continentals settled in England as a result of the conquest, although exact figures cannot be established. |
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From this figure it is estimated that the population of Southern and Eastern England is 1 million. |
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Deer are found throughout the Pennines and some species of animals that are rare elsewhere in England can be found here. |
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In 927 Edward's successor Athelstan conquered Northumbria, bringing the whole of England under one ruler for the first time. |
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In 892, when southern England was united under Alfred the Great, Kent was on the brink of disaster. |
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However, in 959, Edwy died and the whole of England came under Edgar's control. |
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Fauna in the Pennines is similar to the rest of England and Wales, but the area hosts some specialised species. |
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The northwest is amongst the wettest regions of England and much of the rain falls on the Pennines. |
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The outbreak of war was motivated by a gradual rise in tension between the Kings of France and England about Guyenne, Flanders and Scotland. |
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The King of France had the power to revoke all legal decisions made by the King of England in Aquitaine, which was unacceptable to the English. |
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The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. |
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It was abolished on 31 March 2009 and replaced with South East England Councils in Kingston upon Thames. |
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Church attendance continues on a long, slow, steady decline, according to Church of England statistics. |
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More recently, Greater London has been defined as a region of England and in this context is known as London. |
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The South East England Regional Assembly was based on the A3100 road in Guildford near the London Road railway station. |
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After collecting reinforcements, they made a sudden dash across England and occupied the ruined Roman walls of Chester. |
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The South East of England is the most Conservative voting region of Britain in terms of both seats and votes. |
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South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. |
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The South East England Development Agency is in Guildford, with another site in Chatham. |
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In 1013, shortly before his death, he became the first Danish king of England after a long effort. |
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In the autumn of that same year, two rival claimants to the throne led invasions of England in short succession. |
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There were no serious invasions or raids of England by the Danes after this. |
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All of Berkshire's unitary authorities have results above the England average, with West Berkshire considerably above average. |
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His return to England less than two years later would be in very different circumstances. |
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He was born in England but he has adopted Canada as his home. |
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Only three clauses of Magna Carta still remain on statute in England and Wales. |
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The x. of Awgust Maximilian emperowr of Almayne came to kynge Henry of England besyde Terwen, and there the emperowre had wages of the kynge. |
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North West England is bounded to the east by the Peak District and the Pennines and to the west by the Irish Sea. |
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The girl's name was Sherry and she was from England and was staying at the backpackers' near the beach. |
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North West England is a very diverse region, with Manchester and Liverpool amongst the most diverse cities in Europe. |
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If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you. |
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If England were to finally end 50 years of hurt in Paris on 10 July, would we be happy to have Bremained, or sad to have Brexited? |
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After his death, the deaths of his heirs within a decade, and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was mostly forgotten. |
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His accession to the Danish throne in 1018 brought the crowns of England and Denmark together. |
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John was a convert to the Church who left his home in England and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as part of a handcart company. |
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With flankers Mamuka Gorgodze and Shalva Sutiashvili to the fore, Georgia came swarming back, dominating England at the breakdown. |
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The commons of New England towns are important contributors to their charm. |
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The resources he commanded in England helped him to establish control of the majority of Scandinavia, too. |
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In 1485, Henry Tudor united increasing opposition within England to the reign of Richard III with the Lancastrian cause to take the throne. |
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The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. |
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She left England a while back to get away from the douche boat she married. |
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During his childhood England was the target of Viking raids and invasions under Sweyn Forkbeard and his son, Cnut. |
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If England signs into the European single currency before 2020, I'll eat my hat. |
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The exile returned to England in 1057 with his family, but died almost immediately. |
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North East England is one of the nine regions of England that are classified at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. |
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Unsuccessful endeavours have been made to cultivate the Fennochio in England and France. |
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He marched towards England accompanied by his uncle Jasper and the Earl of Oxford. |
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Gazzamania, that much is clear, took off after the World Cup semi-final between England and Germany in Turin. |
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The differences between England and the Germanies sprang from the absence or presence of ministerial interventions. |
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King Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in early September, leading a fleet of more than 300 ships carrying perhaps 15,000 men. |
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The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. |
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Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, and made popular by its use in Arthurian legend. |
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A dispute over the succession to Edward led to the Norman conquest of England in 1066, accomplished by an army led by Duke William of Normandy. |
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William was acclaimed King of England and crowned by Ealdred on 25 December 1066, in Westminster Abbey. |
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With the East India Company, England also competed with the Dutch and French in the East. |
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As part of the United Kingdom, the basic political system in England is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system. |
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Before the union England was ruled by its monarch and the Parliament of England. |
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The North West England European Parliament constituency has the same boundaries as the Region. |
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With trade tariffs with England now abolished, trade blossomed, especially with Colonial America. |
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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the highest court for criminal and civil cases in England and Wales. |
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However, war with England continued for several decades after the death of Bruce. |
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Below the regional level, all of England is divided into 48 ceremonial counties. |
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Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with the Kingdom of England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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The Reformation in England began in 1534, when King Henry VIII had himself declared head of the Church of England. |
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The Greater London Urban Area is by far the largest urban area in England and one of the busiest cities in the world. |
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It is considered a global city and has a population larger than other countries in the United Kingdom besides England itself. |
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Other urban areas of considerable size and influence tend to be in northern England or the English Midlands. |
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The economy of England is the largest part of the UK's economy, which has the 18th highest GDP PPP per capita in the world. |
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The bank has a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, although not in other parts of the United Kingdom. |
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Tourism has become a significant industry, attracting millions of visitors to England each year. |
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As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, England was home to many significant inventors during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. |
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In 1086, when the Domesday Book was compiled, England had a population of two million. |
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As well as English, England has two other indigenous languages, Cornish and Welsh. |
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In 1051 the childless King Edward of England appears to have chosen William as his successor to the English throne. |
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In 2011, 43,700 people moved from Wales, Northern Ireland or England to live in Scotland. |
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It has the second highest overall rate for urban areas, after Yorkshire and the Humber, but the lowest rate in England in its rural areas. |
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Indeed, some acts considered crimes in England and Wales, such as forgery, are not so in Scotland. |
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On 1 May 1707, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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The most prominent opera house in England is the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. |
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The tribe controlled most of Northern England and more territory than any other Celtic tribe in England. |
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The King of England marched North where the two armies met at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. |
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Sport England is the governing body responsible for distributing funds and providing strategic guidance for sporting activity in England. |
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From the accession of James VI and I in 1603, the Stuart dynasty ruled England in personal union with Scotland and Ireland. |
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The world's oldest golf tournament, and golf's first major, is The Open Championship, played both in England and Scotland. |
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Manslaughter, in England and Wales, is broadly similar to culpable homicide in Scotland, and arson is called wilful fire raising. |
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He crossed back and forth between the continent and England at least 19 times between 1067 and his death. |
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The St George's Cross has been the national flag of England since the 13th century. |
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The Tudor rose was adopted as a national emblem of England around the time of the Wars of the Roses as a symbol of peace. |
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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are regions in their own right while England has been divided into nine regions. |
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The organisation of local government in England is complex, with the distribution of functions varying according to local arrangements. |
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The kings of Wessex became increasingly dominant over the other kingdoms of England during the 9th century. |
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They conquered and ruled parts of it, acknowledging the overlordship of the Norman kings of England but with considerable local independence. |
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Her Majesty's Prison Service, which reports to the Ministry of Justice, manages most of the prisons within England and Wales. |
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The Bank of England is the UK's central bank and is responsible for issuing notes and coins in the nation's currency, the pound sterling. |
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The barons, under Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, captured most of southeast England in the Second Barons' War. |
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French and German are the two most commonly taught second languages in England and Scotland. |
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The sport was created in Rugby School, Warwickshire, and the first rugby international took place on 27 March 1871 between England and Scotland. |
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The England cricket team, controlled by the England and Wales Cricket Board, is the only national team in the UK with Test status. |
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Within four years of the Battle of Hastings, England had been completely subjugated by the Normans. |
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At this point England ceased to exist as a separate political entity, and since then has had no national government. |
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James VI and I ascended the throne of England and brought it into personal union with the Kingdom of Scotland. |
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Wales is not represented in the Union Flag, as Wales had been conquered and annexed to England prior to the formation of the United Kingdom. |
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By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms. |
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The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body for the church and comprises bishops, other clergy and laity. |
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