Full Glossary (245 terms)

Wars & Events

• American War of Independence
• Battle of Culloden (1746)
• Battle of Hastings (1066)
• Battle of Killiecrankie & the Massacre of Glencoe
• Battle of the Boyne (1690)
• Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
• Battle of Waterloo (1815)
• Black Death (1348)
• Boer War (1899–1902)
• Bronze Age
• Chinese New Year
• Crimean War (1853–1856)
• Diwali
• East India Company
• Easter Rising (1916)
• Eid al-Adha
• Eid al-Fitr
• English Civil War
• First World War (1914–1918)
• Glorious Revolution (1688)
• Great Depression (1929)
• Great Exhibition (1851)
• Great Fire of London (1666)
• Gunpowder Plot (1605)
• Halloween
• Harrier jump jet
• Harvest Festival
• Highland Clearances
• Hogmanay
• Huguenots
• Hundred Years' War
• Industrial Revolution
• Irish Famine
• Iron Age
• Pancake Day
• Partition of Ireland (1922)
• Remembrance Day
• Second World War (1939–1945)
• Slavery and the slave trade
• Spanish Armada (1588)
• St Andrew's Day
• St David's Day
• St George's Day
• St Patrick's Day
• Stone Age
• The Anglo-Saxons
• The British Empire
• The Chartists
• The Enlightenment
• The Reformation
• The Restoration (1660)
• The Romans
• The Vikings
• Ulster Plantations
• Vaisakhi
• Wars of the Roses

Notable People

• Adam Smith
• Admiral Nelson
• Alexander Fleming
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Captain James Cook
• Charles Stuart Parnell
• David Hume
• Duke of Wellington
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Emperor Claudius
• Ernest Rutherford
• Florence Nightingale
• Francis Crick
• George and Robert Stephenson
• Guy Fawkes
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• James Goodfellow
• James Watt
• John Logie Baird
• Julius Caesar
• Oliver Cromwell
• Richard Arkwright
• Sake Dean Mahomet
• Sir Christopher Wren
• Sir Francis Drake
• Sir Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Sir Peter Mansfield
• Sir Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe
• Sir Robert Walpole
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• William Caxton
• William Wilberforce
• Winston Churchill

Government

• BBC
• British overseas territories
• CBI (Confederation of British Industry)
• Civil Service
• Countries of the UK
• Crown dependencies
• Devolved administrations
• Devolved parliaments
• Hansard
• House of Commons
• House of Lords
• Local Government
• Media and government
• Northern Ireland Assembly
• Prime Minister
• Scottish Parliament
• Senedd (Welsh Parliament)
• System of Government
• The British Constitution
• The Cabinet
• The Church of England
• The monarchy
• The Opposition
• The Opposition / Shadow Cabinet
• The Speaker
• Visiting Parliament and the devolved bodies

Laws & Documents

• Act of Union 1707
• Bill of Rights (1689)
• Corn Laws
• Domesday Book
• Habeas Corpus Act (1679)
• King James Bible
• Magna Carta (1215)
• Reform Act 1832
• Reform Act 1867
• Statute of Rhuddlan (1284)

Monarchs

• Boudicca
• Charles I
• Charles II
• Edward VI
• Elizabeth I
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• James II
• James VI and I
• Kenneth MacAlpin
• King Alfred the Great
• King Charles III
• King John
• Mary I
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Queen Elizabeth II
• Queen Victoria
• Robert the Bruce
• William III

Tax, Money & Driving

• Driving
• Driving Age Limits
• DVLA
• HMRC
• Income tax
• National Insurance
• PAYE (Pay As You Earn)

Music

• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Benjamin Britten
• Edward Elgar
• Gustav Holst
• Ralph Vaughan Williams

Places

• Cambridge
• Canterbury
• Hadrian's Wall
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Iona
• Lincoln Cathedral
• Normandy
• Portsmouth
• Skara Brae
• Soviet Union
• Stonehenge
• Sutton Hoo
• The Union Flag
• Tower of London
• Trafalgar Square
• Westminster
• York Minster

Rights & Citizenship

• Blood and Organ Donation
• Charities
• Citizenship pledge
• Civic values
• Domestic violence
• Equal opportunities
• European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
• Forced Marriage
• Fundamental principles of British life
• Helping at school
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Jury Service
• Looking after the environment
• National Anthem
• National Domestic Abuse Helpline
• Oath / Affirmation of Allegiance
• Oath/Affirmation of Allegiance
• Requirements to become a permanent resident
• Responsibilities and freedoms
• School Governors
• Values and Responsibilities
• Volunteering

Sport

• Bobby Moore
• British Grand Prix
• Cheltenham Gold Cup
• Cricket
• Football
• Grand National
• Horse racing
• Royal Ascot
• Rugby league
• Rugby union
• Scottish Grand National
• Sir Ian Botham
• Six Nations Championship
• St Leger
• Test match (cricket)
• The Ashes
• The Boat Race
• The Derby
• The FA Cup
• Wimbledon

Voting & Elections

• By-election
• Canvassing
• Contacting representatives
• Electoral Register
• Extending the vote
• First Past the Post
• General Election
• Political parties
• Polling Station
• Postal Ballot
• Standing for office
• The Party System
• Where to vote
• Who can vote

Writers

• Charles Dickens
• Evelyn Waugh
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Graham Greene
• J K Rowling
• Jane Austen
• John Barbour
• Robert Burns
• Rudyard Kipling
• Samuel Pepys
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Thomas Hardy
• William Golding, Seamus Heaney and Harold Pinter
• William Shakespeare