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BritBox
BritBox is a British TV streaming service founded by BBC Worldwide and ITV, launched in the US in Q1 2017 and the UK in November 2019. BBC Studios bought out BritBox International in 2024; the UK service merged into ITVX.
BRITE
BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer) is a constellation of six nanosatellites operated by Austria, Canada, and Poland, launched from 2013 to 2014 for precise optical study of the brightest stars.
Brite Payments
Brite Payments is a Stockholm-based fintech company founded in 2019 by Lena Hackelöer that provides instant open-banking account-to-account payments, raising a $60 million Series A in 2023.
BRITE trial
BRITE (NCT01261325, N01358) is UCB Pharma's Phase 3 trial of adjunctive brivaracetam 100 and 200 mg/day versus placebo in 768 adults with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures; both doses reduced seizure frequency about 23% over placebo.
BRITE-Constellation
BRITE-Constellation is a fleet of six nanosatellites operated by Austria, Canada, and Poland that performs two-color photometry of the brightest stars, launched between 2013 and 2014.
British & Irish Lions
British & Irish Lions, also British Lions: a rugby union touring side combining the best players of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, first touring in 1888, playing southern hemisphere giants Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa every four years; won the 2025 Australia series 2-1.
British Academy Film Awards
The EE BAFTA Film Awards are BAFTA's annual London film prizes, founded 1947, first held 1949, with a bronze Mitzi Cunliffe mask trophy, three-round voting, UK theatrical-release eligibility, and BFI Diversity Standards.
British Academy Games Awards
The British Academy Games Awards (BAFTA Games Awards) are BAFTA's annual video game honors, launched in 2004 after the 1998 Interactive Entertainment Awards, voted by about 1,700 industry members plus expert juries; Astro Bot led 2025 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Best Game in 2026.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) is an independent UK arts charity formed from the 1947 British Film Academy's merger, running film, TV, craft, games, Scotland and Cymru awards with a ~8,000-member voting body.
British Academy Television Awards
British Academy Television Awards: annual BAFTA TV prizes (BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises), voted by BAFTA's television membership and held each May; 2026 ceremony on 10 May saw Adolescence win a record four awards.
British Aerospace
British Aerospace (BAe), UK state-owned aircraft and defence manufacturer formed 29 April 1977 from BAC, Hawker Siddeley and Scottish Aviation; privatised 1981-1985; built BAe 146, Hawk, Harrier, Tornado; merged with Marconi in 1999 to form BAE Systems.
British Aerospace 146
The British Aerospace 146, nicknamed the Whisperjet, is a quiet four-engine British regional airliner, first flown in 1981; 394 were built, including the re-engined Avro RJ series.
British Aerospace EAP
The British Aerospace EAP (Experimental Aircraft Programme) was a British technology demonstrator aircraft, first flown in 1986, that proved technologies later used in the Eurofighter Typhoon.
British Aerospace Harrier II
The British Aerospace Harrier II is a British V/STOL ground-attack aircraft flown by the RAF as the GR5, GR7, and GR9 until retirement in 2010.
British Aerospace Hawk 200
The British Aerospace Hawk 200 is a single-seat light combat aircraft derived from the Hawk trainer, sharing 80 percent of its airframe and serving Indonesia, Malaysia, and Oman.
British Aerospace HOTOL
HOTOL, or Horizontal Take-Off and Landing, was a 1980s British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce unmanned spaceplane concept designed to reach orbit from a runway; funding was withdrawn in 1988.
British Aerospace Jetstream
The British Aerospace Jetstream, also called the BAe Jetstream or Jetstream 32, is a British 29-seat twin-engine turboprop regional airliner developed at Prestwick and produced from 1991 to 1998.
British Aerospace Jetstream 41
The British Aerospace Jetstream 41, also designated Jetstream Series 4100 or J41, is a 29-seat twin-turboprop regional airliner built by British Aerospace at Prestwick, Scotland, from 1991 to 1998.
British Aerospace Sea Harrier
The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a British carrier-based VTOL jet fighter developed from the Hawker Siddeley Harrier for the Royal Navy, which fought in the 1982 Falklands War.
British African-Caribbean people
British African-Caribbean people, also called the Windrush generation, are Black Britons of Caribbean heritage. Defined by post-1948 migration under the British Nationality Act 1948, settlement in Brixton, Notting Hill Carnival, and the 2018 Windrush scandal.
British Agricultural Revolution
The British Agricultural Revolution, also called the Second Agricultural Revolution, was a transformation in English farming after 1750 that more than doubled output through enclosure, turnips, clover, and seed drilling.
British Aircraft Corporation
British Aircraft Corporation was a British aircraft manufacturer created in 1960 by merger, which produced the BAC One-Eleven, Concorde, Jaguar, and Tornado before nationalisation as British Aerospace in 1977.
British Airways
British Airways is the United Kingdom's flag carrier airline, created in 1974 by merging BOAC and BEA, privatized in 1987, and since 2011 part of International Airlines Group.
British Airways fleet
The British Airways fleet is the aircraft operated by the UK flag carrier and its subsidiaries BA CityFlyer and BA Euroflyer, an all-jet fleet of about 291 aircraft.
British Airways Flight 009
British Airways Flight 009, called the Jakarta incident, was a 1982 flight whose Boeing 747 lost all four engines flying through volcanic ash from Mount Galunggung.
British Airways Flight 38
British Airways Flight 38, also called Speedbird 38, was a Beijing to London flight whose Boeing 777 crash-landed at Heathrow in 2008, with all 152 aboard surviving.
British Airways Flight 5390
British Airways Flight 5390 was a 1990 Birmingham to Málaga flight whose cockpit windscreen blew out, partially ejecting the captain; the first officer landed safely at Southampton.
British America
British America: the English and British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, 1607–1783, from Jamestown through the thirteen colonies plus Florida and Quebec, ending with American independence.
British American Racing
British American Racing (BAR), BAT's Formula One team 1999–2005 founded around Jacques Villeneuve via the Tyrrell purchase; zero points in 1999, second in 2004 with Jenson Button on 119 points, then bought by Honda for an estimated £17m.
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco (BAT) is a British multinational tobacco and nicotine company founded in 1902, listed in London, selling cigarettes, vapor, and nicotine pouches in over 200 markets.