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British National Corpus
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100-million-word computer-readable collection of written and spoken British English from the early 1990s, compiled between 1991 and 1994 by a consortium led by Oxford University Press.
British National Party
British National Party (BNP), far-right British party founded April 1982 by John Tyndall after leaving the National Front; led 1999-2014 by Nick Griffin; won two European Parliament seats in 2009 with 6.20% in Great Britain; membership fell 68% by 2012; deregistered 8 January 2016.
British National Road Race Championships
British National Road Race Championships, the annual GB road race titles run by British Cycling since 1943, deciding who wears the national champion's jersey; recent winners include Fred Wright, Zoe Bäckstedt, Sam Watson, and Millie Couzens.
British National Vegetation Classification
The British National Vegetation Classification (NVC) is a phytosociological plant community classification for Great Britain, commissioned in 1975 and published 1991–2000 as five volumes of British Plant Communities, with 286 communities from about 35,000 samples.
British nationality law
British nationality law governs who holds the UK's six nationality statuses under the British Nationality Act 1981, in force 1 January 1983, tracing from common law allegiance through the 1948 CUKC era to modern naturalisation and right of abode rules.
British New Guinea
British New Guinea was a British possession on the south-eastern coast of New Guinea, proclaimed in 1884 and annexed in 1888, later becoming the Territory of Papua in 1906.
British Newspaper Archive
British Newspaper Archive (BNA): subscription digitised newspaper archive launched November 2011 by Findmypast and the British Library; over 100 million searchable British and Irish newspaper pages from 1699 onward, with a growing free-to-view portion.
British nobility
British nobility: the peerage (dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons; hereditary and life peerages) plus the baronetage. Titles are Crown-created; hereditary peers left the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
British North America
British North America: the British Empire's North American colonies, especially those remaining loyal after 1783. New France ceded in 1763; united by the British North America Act 1867 into the Dominion of Canada.
British North America Acts
British North America Acts: UK statutes, led by the 1867 Act, that created the Dominion of Canada and served as its constitution until renamed Constitution Acts at the 1982 patriation.
British Nuclear Medicine Society
British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS), UK professional society and charity (no. 1150234) for nuclear medicine; founded 1966 as the Nuclear Medicine Society at the Prince Alfred pub, London, renamed 1969; publishes Nuclear Medicine Communications and clinical guidelines.
British nuclear tests at Maralinga
The British nuclear tests at Maralinga, also called the Maralinga nuclear tests, were British nuclear weapons trials conducted in the South Australian desert between 1955 and 1963.
British occupation of Egypt
The British occupation of Egypt (الاحتلال البريطاني لمصر) began in 1882, when British forces defeated Ahmed Urabi at Tel-el-Kebir, and lasted until the withdrawal of 1956.
British occupation of Havana
The British occupation of Havana was Britain's seizure and year-long holding of the Spanish colonial capital from August 1762 to July 1763, during the Seven Years' War.
British Occupation of Java
The British Occupation of Java (Pendudukan Inggris di Jawa) was Britain's seizure of Java from the Franco-Dutch in 1811, governed by Raffles until its return to the Netherlands in 1816.
British occupation of Manila
The British occupation of Manila (Okupasyon ng Britanya sa Maynila) began when British forces took Intramuros on 6 October 1762, during the Seven Years' War.
British occupation of Saint-Domingue
The British occupation of Saint-Domingue (Occupation britannique de Saint-Domingue) was a five-year British occupation of parts of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, from September 1793 to September 1798.
British Open (snooker)
British Open (snooker): professional ranking tournament, first staged 1985, ran to 2004, revived 2021; 128-player flat draw with random FA-Cup style draws; Centaur, Cheltenham venue; 2026 champion Jak Jones.
British Overseas Airways Corporation
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned long-haul airline formed in 1939 by merging Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd, and it merged with British European Airways in 1974 to form British Airways.
British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories are 14 UK-sovereign territories, 10 inhabited by about 270,000 people, each with its own constitution, a UK-appointed Governor, and UK responsibility for defence and foreign relations.
British Pacific Fleet
The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) was a Royal Navy carrier strike force formed in November 1944 to fight alongside the US Navy against Japan, operating off Okinawa and the Japanese home islands.
British Pakistanis
British Pakistanis, also known as Pakistani British people, are one of the UK's largest ethnic minorities, at 1.17 million people in 2011 and about 2% of England and Wales by 2018.
British Paralympic Association
The British Paralympic Association, trading as ParalympicsGB, is the National Paralympic Committee for Great Britain, responsible for selecting, funding, and managing the team at the Paralympic Games.
British passport
British passport: travel document issued by HM Passport Office to holders of British nationality (British citizen, BN(O), etc.). Covers history from the 1641 Charles I passport, biometric e-passports since 2006, the 2020 blue design, ETA dual-citizen rules and emergency travel documents.
British people
British people: citizens and residents of the United Kingdom, legally British citizens under UK nationality law since the 1707 Acts of Union, and census-wise people identifying with a British national identity, distinct from English, Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish identities.
British pet massacre
The British pet massacre: the killing of 400,000 to 750,000 British cats and dogs, about a quarter of the pet population, in the first week of September 1939, despite government and charity advice against it.
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), formally BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, is the UK recorded music trade body founded in 1973, representing about 500 labels covering roughly 90% of UK sales, and organising the BRIT Awards, Mercury Prize and Official Charts co-ownership.
British Physics Olympiad
The British Physics Olympiad (BPhO) is an annual UK physics competition for pre-university students, selecting the British team for the International Physics Olympiad since 1983.
British Post Office scandal
The British Post Office scandal, also known as the Horizon scandal, was the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub-postmasters for shortfalls caused by the faulty Horizon accounting system.
British Press Awards
The British Press Awards, today run as The Press Awards, are an annual ceremony honoring UK journalists, photographers, podcasts, campaigns, and newspapers, run by the News Media Association.