brittish greats

• The Spanish armada was defeated

  1588
• Tintagel, Edinburgh and Caerleon are places that relate to legends of King Arthur (Cornwall)
• The Battle of Britain


  Summer of 1940
• Britain expanded its territory in 18th and 19th centuries
• Churchill made some memorable speeches during the second world war
• Churchill


  • Great strategist
  • Orator
  • Famous for his diplomacy and historical writing
  • Nobel prize for literature
• The main accomplishment of the British empire: the global language
• The industrial revolution takes places

  Turn of the 19th century
• King John signed the Magna Carta


  1215
• Thomas Moore was executed because he didn't want to sign the document (known for the book 'Utopia')
• The slave traded was prohibited for British traders


  January first, 1808
• The first map of the combined London electric Railways appeared


  1906
• W.H. Auden's poetry


  • The main theme was sorrow for the human conditions
• Values portrayed by Jane Austen

  • Tolerance
  • Honesty
  • Courage
  • Good neighbouring
• Vices portrayed by Jane Austen

  • Snobbishness
  • Idleness
• Robert Burns is Scotland's national poet
• Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales
• Charles Dickens is called the quintessential Victorian (19th century)
• Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond thrillers
• The name of the book that Wordsworth and Coleridge composed together was Lyrical Ballads
• If the third edition of the oxford English dictionary were to be published it would contain

  • 40 volumes
  • More than one million words
• The web and cinema bring Shakespeare's plays to a wider audience than ever
• Turner is a painter (19th century)
• According to Jeremy Paxman the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is about ideas and allowing people to pursue these ideas
• The name 'bobby' comes from Sir Robert Peel (19th century politician)
• Fish and chips are Britain's most distinctive contribution to the world's menu of cheap and satisfying food
• Ordinary people (ignorant of the law) make the important legal decisions under the jury system
• Stephen Bayley calls London taxi's the best of Britain on wheels
• The Male Voice Choirs belong to Wales
• The Mini skirt was according to Mary Quant the beginning of Women's Lib
• The English don't like the French because of the battle of Hastings (1066) + French eat horses and snails
• The sentence "last order, ladies and gentlemen, please" is used in pubs
• In London (tourist boots) you can find postcards depicting Punks
• The practice of queuing comes from the British sense of honour
• The British want to conserve the Red Telephone boxes because of their heritage
• The best suits are made in Savile Row (London)
• Tea has kept the British company and improved their lives for 350 years
• The department that deals with Times correspondence receives 400 letters every day
• 90% of Scotch is drunk abroad
• Weather talk can be an icebreaker, a tension-easer or a bond-maker