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English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (2026 c. 23), UK Act receiving Royal Assent 29 April 2026, creates strategic authorities, Community Right to Buy, gambling impact assessments, and bans upwards-only rent review clauses.
English Dissenters
English Dissenters were Protestants who refused to conform to the Church of England, including Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, and Unitarians, defined by the 1662 Act of Uniformity ejections and the 1689 Toleration Act.
English draughts
English draughts, called checkers in the US, is the 8×8, 12-men-per-side draughts variant with compulsory forward-only captures, single-square kings, and huffing; distinct from 10×10 international draughts.
English Education Act 1835
English Education Act 1835, also called Bentinck's Resolution of 7 March 1835 and based on Macaulay's Minute of 2 February 1835, directed British Indian education funds to English instruction alone, ending the Orientalist–Anglicist dispute.
English Electric Canberra
The English Electric Canberra was a British twin-jet light bomber, the first jet-powered bomber in Royal Air Force service, with its maiden flight in 1949.
English Electric Lightning
The English Electric Lightning was a British single-seat, twin-engined fighter interceptor, the Royal Air Force's first supersonic fighter, designed against Soviet bombers and serving from 1960 to 1988.
English embroidery
English embroidery: England's needlework tradition, from medieval opus anglicanum silk-and-gold church vestments and the Bayeux Tapestry to Tudor-Stuart raised work, samplers, and Jacobean crewelwork.
English Folk Dance and Song Society
The English Folk Dance and Song Society is a London charity, founded in 1932, that preserves and promotes English folk music, song, and dance from Cecil Sharp House.
English folklore
English folklore is the traditional tales, beliefs, customs, and songs of England, passed on orally in variants. The term was coined by William Thoms in 1846; it spans fairy lore, legends like Robin Hood, ballads, and customs.
English football clubs in international competitions
English football clubs in international competitions: English clubs in UEFA's Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League. Six clubs have won the European Cup/Champions League, England's 15 titles rank second to Spain's 20, and English clubs filled all three European finals in 2025/26.
English Football League
The English Football League (EFL), formerly the Football League, organizes the Championship, League One, and League Two, the three professional divisions below the Premier League.
English football league system
English football league system (football pyramid): hierarchical leagues from the Premier League and EFL's 92 professional clubs down through the National League and county leagues, linked by promotion and relegation, now overseen by the Independent Football Regulator.
English football on television
English football on television encompasses live matches, highlights, and related coverage of England's professional and other football competitions. Broadcasting has become a major source of revenue, with separately negotiated rights for competitions.
English Gardner
English Gardner, born in 1992 in Philadelphia, is an American sprinter who won Olympic gold in the 4 × 100 m relay at Rio 2016 and silver at Tokyo 2021.
English Geetagalu
English Geetagalu (ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಗೀತಗಳು, "English Songs") is a 1921 Kannada collection of translated English poems by B.M. Srikantaiah, regarded as the founding work of modern Kannada lyric poetry.
English Gothic
English Gothic is the Gothic architecture of England, developed from French ideas from about 1150 into a distinct style divided into Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular periods.
English grammar
English grammar: the structural rules of English (syntax and morphology) and the tradition of grammar writing; first modern-English grammar in the 16th century, three historical stages, prescriptive versus descriptive approaches, no official language academy.
English Harbour Naval Cemetery (Antigua)
The English Harbour Naval Cemetery in Antigua holds Royal Navy hospital and beach burials from about 1763 to 1834, mostly sailors killed by tropical disease.
English Heritage
English Heritage (English Heritage Trust) is the charity, charity no. 1140351, caring for the National Heritage Collection of over 400 state-owned sites including Stonehenge and Dover Castle under licence from Historic England since the 1 April 2015 split.
English honorifics
English honorifics (courtesy titles): Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Dr., Professor, Sir, Madam. Optional pre-name respect markers; English lacks grammatical honorifics after thou/you merger; Ms. standardized in the 1970s, Mx. added to OED 2015.
English in the Commonwealth of Nations
English in the Commonwealth of Nations, also called Commonwealth English, is the working language of the 56-member Commonwealth, inherited from British colonisation, mandatory for membership since 1997, and spanning national varieties from Indian to Caribbean English.
English knitting
English knitting, also called throwing or right-hand knitting, is a Western hand-knitting style holding yarn in the right hand and wrapping it around the needle; dominant in the UK and North America, distinct from Continental left-hand picking.
English land law
English land law governs ownership, use, and transfer of land in England and Wales. Rooted in feudal tenure, it was reshaped by the six 1925 property statutes, chiefly the Law of Property Act 1925, and is now undergoing major leasehold and commonhold reform.
English Language Act 2026
New Zealand public act, 2026 No 49, assented 6 August 2026, declaring English an official language of New Zealand alongside te reo Māori and New Zealand Sign Language; a declaratory Government bill in charge of Paul Goldsmith.
English language in Europe
English in Europe: native to only about 1% of the EU population (Ireland, Malta), yet the first foreign language for over 95% of EU schoolchildren, 38% second-language proficiency, and the EU's dominant working lingua franca after Brexit.
English law
English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, also called the law of England and Wales. It combines judge-made precedent, parliamentary statute, and equity, dates to Henry II's reforms, and differs from Scots law, influencing legal systems worldwide.
English literature
English literature: literary works in the English language from Old English beginnings (c. AD 450) through Middle English, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Modernism to global Anglophone and postcolonial writing today.
English longbow
The English longbow is a tall wooden bow, usually of yew, that was the favored missile weapon of English and Welsh infantry into the Tudor era.
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) is a panel study following a representative cohort of people in England aged 50 and over, first interviewed in 2002.
English Mastiff
English Mastiff (Old English Mastiff), registered simply as Mastiff: giant British guard-dog breed in the AKC Working Group, recognized 1885; males 30 inches and 160-230 pounds, fawn/apricot/brindle coat with black mask, 6-10 year lifespan.