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British Raj
British Raj: direct British Crown rule of the Indian subcontinent, 1858-1947, established after the 1857 rebellion ended East India Company rule; governed via a Secretary of State, a viceroy, and princely states under paramountcy.
British Rally Championship
British Rally Championship (BRC), Britain's premier stage rally series run by Motorsport UK since its 2016 relaunch; six-round 2026 calendar, Rally2 top class, Junior BRC under 27; champions include Colin McRae, Richard Burns, Elfyn Evans.
British Rallycross Championship
British Rallycross Championship (5 Nations BRX / 5 Nations Trophy): UK national rallycross series promoted by Lydden Hill Race Circuit under Motorsport UK rules, running Supercar, Swift Sport, Junior, Cross Car, Retro, and RX150 classes on a 2026 calendar including Lydden Hill, Mondello Park, Loheac, Valkenswaard, and Pembrey. Distinct from the British Rally Championship and the BRCA radio-controlled series.
British reconquest of Burma
The British reconquest of Burma (မြန်မာပြန်တိုက်စစ်) was the Allied campaign of 1944 and 1945 in which Slim's Fourteenth Army drove the Imperial Japanese Army out of Burma.
British Resident (Malaya)
A British Resident in Malaya was a British officer, created by the 1874 Pangkor Engagement, whose advice the sultan had to act on except on Malay religion and custom.
British rock music
British rock music: rock by UK artists, from 1950s skiffle and the British Invasion to punk, metal, indie, and Britpop; 22.2% of 2025 UK singles consumption, its highest share since 2016.
British royal family
The British royal family, the House of Windsor since George V's 1917 renaming, is the family of King Charles III, head of state of the UK and 14 Commonwealth realms under a constitutional monarchy with politically neutral, minister-advised roles.
British Royal Train
The British Royal Train is a set of railway carriages built for travel by the British monarch, in service since 1977 and scheduled for decommissioning in 2027.
British rule in Burma
British rule in Burma (1824–1948): colonial administration established through three Anglo-Burmese wars, governed as a province of British India until 1937, then a separate Crown colony, ending with independence in 1948.
British rule in Ireland
British rule in Ireland: English and later British dominion over Ireland from the 1169 Anglo-Norman invasion and 1171 lordship through the 1801 Act of Union to the 1922 Irish Free State, spanning lordship, kingdom, colony, and union.
British Shorthair
British Shorthair, also first known as British Blue: a British pedigree cat breed with a dense plush coat, calm temperament, and Roman-era ancestry; the UK's most popular pedigree cat, recognized by GCCF, CFA, and TICA.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language (BSL) is the visual-gestural sign language of the UK Deaf community, legally recognised in England, Scotland and Wales by the BSL Act 2022, with about 151,000 users, a two-handed alphabet, and related varieties Auslan and NZSL (BANZSL).
British slang
British slang: the informal, nonstandard vocabulary of UK English, including cant, rhyming slang, backslang, and items like innit and wicked; documented from Harman's 1567 Caveat and Grose's 1785 dictionary to Green's Dictionary of Slang.
British Society for Plant Pathology
British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP), UK learned society founded 8 April 1981 from the Federation of British Plant Pathologists; edits Plant Pathology, Molecular Plant Pathology, and New Disease Reports; charity 1071465.
British Society for the History of Science
The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), founded in 1947, is a learned society and charity devoted to the history of science, technology, and medicine.
British Solomon Islands
The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was the British protected territory over the Solomon Islands, proclaimed in 1893 and ended at independence on 7 July 1978.
British Somaliland
British Somaliland, the Somaliland Protectorate, was a British protectorate on the Gulf of Aden from 1884 to 1960, briefly independent as the State of Somaliland before uniting with Italian Somaliland to form the Somali Republic on 1 July 1960.
British South Africa Company
British South Africa Company (BSAC), chartered company incorporated by royal charter 29 October 1889, founded by Cecil Rhodes on the Rudd Concession; governed Southern Rhodesia until 1923 and Northern Rhodesia until 1924.
British space programme
The British space program, also known as the UK Space Program, is the United Kingdom's space activity, spanning the UK Space Agency, defense space, and about 1,900 space companies.
British Standard Pipe
British Standard Pipe (BSP) thread is an ISO-adopted family of screw threads for interconnecting and sealing pipe ends, dominant worldwide outside North America, where NPT is used.
British Standard Whitworth
British Standard Whitworth, or Whitworth thread, is an imperial screw thread standard with a 55-degree angle and rounded crests, proposed by Joseph Whitworth in 1841.
British steam railcars
British steam railcars were self-propelled passenger carriages with a built-in steam engine, running British branch lines from about 1900, most notably the GWR's 99 railmotors.
British Steel (album)
British Steel is Judas Priest's sixth studio album, released April 1980 on CBS/Columbia. Recorded in about four weeks at Ringo Starr's Tittenhurst Park with producer Tom Allom, it peaked at UK number 4 and broke the band into the US Top 40.
British subject
British subject is a UK nationality status: before 1949 it covered nearly everyone connected to the UK, matched Commonwealth citizenship from 1949 to 1983, and since 1 January 1983 under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a narrow residual status held mainly by former British subjects without citizenship and Ireland-connected claimants.
British Summer Time
British Summer Time is the civil time used in the United Kingdom during summer, one hour ahead of Greenwich mean time, running from late March to late October.
British suppression of the slave trade at sea
British suppression of the slave trade at sea was a Royal Navy campaign from 1807 into the 1860s to enforce Britain's 1807 abolition by intercepting slave ships.
British Supreme Court for China
British Supreme Court for China (Her Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Japan), a Shanghai-based British extraterritorial court created by Order in Council in 1865, applying English law to British subjects until the 1943 treaty ended extraterritoriality.
British T-class submarine
The British T class, or Triton class, was a class of 53 diesel-electric patrol submarines built for the Royal Navy from 1937 to 1946, the largest ocean-going submarine class the Royal Navy ever had.
British thermal unit
The British thermal unit (Btu) is a unit of energy equal to about 1,055 joules, defined as the heat to raise one pound of water 1 °F.
British Thoracic Society
British Thoracic Society (BTS), UK professional body for respiratory medicine, formed 1982 by merger of the Thoracic Society and British Thoracic Association; publishes Thorax, guidelines, audits; over 5,000 members.