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Britannia Industries
Britannia Industries Limited, founded 1892 in Kolkata, is a Wadia Group Indian FMCG food company selling biscuits, bread, cakes, rusk, and dairy in over 80 countries, with over one-third of the Indian biscuit market.
BritAsia TV
BritAsia TV is a Birmingham-based British Asian music and entertainment channel launched on Sky Digital in 2008, airing Bhangra, Punjabi pop, and Bollywood, and running the BritAsia TV Music Awards.
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.
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 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 bhangra
British bhangra, also known as UK bhangra, is a British music genre fusing Punjabi lyrics and dhol beats with Western pop, R&B, and hip hop, centered on Birmingham and London.
British blues
British blues was an early-to-mid-1960s musical movement based in London clubs, founded by Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, that became an important influence on the rock explosion.
British Board of Film Classification
British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), formerly British Board of Film Censors: UK's independent, not-for-profit film and video regulator since 1912. Issues U, PG, 12A/12, 15, 18, R18 ratings; designated authority under the Video Recordings Act 1984; guidelines refreshed every 4-5 years via public consultation (12,000 people in 2023).
British brass band
The British brass band, or British-style brass band, is an all-brass ensemble. It developed in 19th-century Britain and is defined by its fixed instrumentation and contesting tradition.
British Chinese cuisine
British Chinese cuisine is the adapted Chinese cooking of the United Kingdom, served chiefly in takeaways and rooted in Cantonese dishes like chicken balls and chips with curry sauce.
British country clothing
British country clothing: rural sportswear for shooting, stalking, and country pursuits built on tweed, waxed cotton, moleskin, and corduroy rather than synthetics; includes Barbour wax jackets, estate tweeds, flat caps, and wellington boots.
British cuisine
British cuisine: the cooking traditions of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, also called UK or British food. Regional dishes, Victorian decline, wartime rationing, curry adoption, and the 1970s invention of a national cuisine distinguish it.
British dance band
British dance bands were jazz-influenced British orchestras, roughly 1919-1945, playing anglicised, precisely arranged dance music for ballrooms, records, and the BBC, with bandleaders such as Ambrose and Jack Payne.
British Film Institute
British Film Institute (BFI), UK's lead organisation for film and the moving image: cultural charity founded 1933, Royal Charter 1983, custodian of the BFI National Archive (1935), DCMS-sponsored NDPB and National Lottery distributor with a £150m 2026-2029 funding plan.
British Guiana 1c magenta
British Guiana 1c magenta: unique 1856 one-cent provisional stamp of British Guiana (Guyana), printed by Baum and Dallas; the sole surviving copy, initialled EDW, is the world's rarest and most valuable stamp, last sold for $8.3 million in 2021.
British Home Stores
British Home Stores (BHS), British department store chain founded 1928 in Brixton, sold clothing and homeware; bought by Philip Green in 2000 for £200m, sold for £1 in 2015, collapsed into administration April 2016 with a £571m pension deficit.
British humour
British humour: the UK's comic tradition of irony, understatement, self-deprecation, sarcasm and class satire, rooted in music hall, reinvented by 1979 alternative comedy, anchored by the BBC and the Edinburgh Fringe, and consistently less appreciated by American audiences than by British ones.
British Invasion
The British Invasion was the wave of British pop and rock acts, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, that dominated US charts and youth culture from 1964 to the mid-1960s, reshaping music, fashion, and film.
British literature
British literature is literature produced by authors of the United Kingdom, spanning Latin, Gaelic, Welsh, Old, Middle, and Modern English works. Commonly divided into six periods from Medieval to contemporary, its concept, canon, decolonization debates, and falling UK enrollment are key distinguishing topics.
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 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 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.
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.
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.