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British Touring Car Championship
The British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) is a British motor racing championship for production-based saloons and hatchbacks, first run in 1958 and organized by BARC (TOCA) Ltd.
British Tunnelling Society
The British Tunnelling Society (BTS) is a British charity and an Associated Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers, founded in 1971 to advance the art and science of tunnelling.
British undergraduate degree classification
British undergraduate degree classification grades UK honours degrees as first, upper second (2:1), lower second (2:2), or third, typically at 70/60/50/40 percent boundaries, computed by university-specific algorithms and scrutinized for grade inflation by the OfS and UKSCQA.
British Union of Fascists
British Union of Fascists (BUF): British fascist party founded October 1932 by Oswald Mosley, peaking at roughly 40,000–50,000 members in 1934, marked by Olympia violence, Cable Street, the Public Order Act 1936, and 1940 internment and proscription.
British Veterinary Association
British Veterinary Association (BVA), founded 1881, is the UK's largest representative body for vets, with 19,000+ members, 7 Mansfield Street London HQ, Vet Record journal, and campaigns on Veterinary Surgeons Act reform and animal welfare.
British Virgin Islands
The British Virgin Islands (Virgin Islands) are a British Overseas Territory of about 40 Caribbean islands, internally self-governing under the 2007 Constitution, with an economy built on tourism and offshore financial services.
British war crimes
British war crimes: allegations against UK forces in Iraq (2003-2009) and Afghanistan (2010-2013), covering detainee abuse and unlawful killings; ICC examination, IHAT, Operation Northmoor, and the Haddon-Cave inquiry.
British War Medal
British War Medal 1914-20, a British First World War campaign medal instituted by King George V in July 1919 for service abroad 5 August 1914 to 11 November 1918, extended to 1920; about 6,660,000 awarded; part of the Pip, Squeak and Wilfred trio.
British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939
The British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939 was a wave of strikes and riots across the British Caribbean, beginning in Trinidad and peaking in the 1937–1938 general strikes.
British West Indies
British West Indies: the former British Caribbean colonies, built on sugar and slavery, emancipated 1833–1838, federated 1958–1962, then mostly independent; six remain UK Overseas Territories.
British West Indies Regiment
The British West Indies Regiment (BWIR) was a British Army regiment raised in 1915 from Caribbean volunteers, serving in the First World War largely in labor roles.
British Western Pacific Territories
The British Western Pacific Territories, known as the Western Pacific High Commission, were British Pacific possessions, including the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and the British Solomon Islands, administered from Fiji from 1877 to 1976.
British Windward Islands
The British Windward Islands was a British colonial grouping in the southern Lesser Antilles, administered from 1833 to 1960 and originally comprising Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent.
British-origin decorations in foreign honours systems
British-origin decorations are British honors, from the Order of the British Empire to gallantry and campaign medals, that other states retained, adapted, or replaced after empire.
British–Buganda invasion of Bunyoro
The British–Buganda invasion of Bunyoro was a colonial war in what is now western Uganda, fought from 1893 to 1899, ending with King Kabalega's capture and exile.
BritNed
BritNed is a 1,000 MW high-voltage direct current electricity interconnector between the Isle of Grain in Kent, Great Britain, and Maasvlakte in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in operation since 2011.
Britnee Timberlake
Britnee N. Timberlake is an American Democratic politician serving in the New Jersey Senate from the 34th district since 2024, known for legislation on birthing equity, immigrant protections, and affordable housing.
Britney (album)
Britney is the third studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears, released by Jive Records in late 2001 and titled simply with her own name.
Britney Jean
Britney Jean is Britney Spears' eighth studio album, released December 3, 2013 on RCA. Promoted as her most personal record and executive-produced by will.i.am, it scored Metascore 50 and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200.
Britney Manson
Britney Manson, stage name of Nika Kraush (born 1995), is a Russian-Estonian transgender model, singer, and TikTok personality who went viral recreating supermodel runway walks, signed with Elite and Embassy Models, and released the 2024 EP Hot Couture with the 200-million-stream hit FASHION.
Britney Spears
Britney Spears (born 1981) is an American pop singer from Mississippi, known for "...Baby One More Time" and "Toxic," with nearly 100 million records sold, a 2008-2021 conservatorship, the memoir The Woman in Me, and a 2025 catalog sale to Primary Wave.
Britney Spears discography
Britney Spears discography: nine studio albums (1999–2016) from ...Baby One More Time to Glory, six UK No. 1 singles, six Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, ~100 million records sold, catalog sold to Primary Wave.
Britney: Piece of Me
Britney: Piece of Me was Britney Spears' first Las Vegas residency, at Planet Hollywood's AXIS Theater, December 2013 to December 2017: 248 shows, 915,000 attendees, $138 million grossed, and a template for modern pop residencies.
Britomartis Chasma
Britomartis Chasma, a 1,000-km chasma on Venus at 33S 130E inside the Artemis corona; IAU-named 1994 for the Cretan hunt goddess; stereo topography suggests a spreading-center-like ridge and trough.
Briton Ferry
Briton Ferry (Welsh: Llansawel) is a town in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, on the Neath estuary in Swansea Bay, formerly a coal port centered on Brunel's 1861 dock, closed 1959, now a Grade II listed monument.
Britons in India
Britons in India: the British community in the Indian subcontinent, from East India Company employees (from 1600) through the Raj's administrators and nabobs to today's small expatriate population in cities like Bengaluru.
Britpop
Britpop was a mid-1990s British music movement reacting against American grunge, led by Blur, Oasis, and Pulp, and peaking with the 1995 Battle of Britpop.
Britpop (A. G. Cook album)
Britpop (2024) is the third studio album by British producer A. G. Cook, released on New Alias: a 24-song, three-disc triple album themed Past, Present, and Future, his first release after closing PC Music.
Britpop (Robbie Williams album)
Britpop is the thirteenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, released in January 2026, a guitar-heavy, 1990s-styled pop-rock record featuring Gary Barlow, Chris Martin, Tony Iommi, and Gaz Coombes.
Britpop Tour
Britpop Tour is Robbie Williams's 14th solo concert tour, renamed from Robbie Williams Live 2025 in May 2025 and named after his 13th album Britpop. It opened at Edinburgh's Murrayfield on 31 May 2025, spans Europe, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand into 2027.