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British invasions of the Río de la Plata
The British invasions of the Río de la Plata (Invasiones inglesas al Río de la Plata) were failed British attempts to seize Buenos Aires in 1806 and 1807.
British Iron Age
The British Iron Age (c. 800 BC to AD 43, or AD 400 in Scotland) is the final prehistoric period of Britain, marked by iron metallurgy, hillforts, and later tribal coinage, ending with the Roman invasion of AD 43.
British Israelism
British Israelism, also called Anglo-Israelism, is a religious belief that the British and Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples descend from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, articulated by John Wilson in 1840.
British Jews
British Jews: the United Kingdom's Jewish community, about 300,000 people, 0.5% of England and Wales, continuous since the 1655 readmission, concentrated in London and Manchester, represented by the Board of Deputies.
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy (BJHP), peer-reviewed quarterly-turned-bimonthly journal founded 1993 by John Rogers, official journal of the BSHP, published by Taylor & Francis, covering ancient to twentieth-century philosophy.
British journal of cancer
British Journal of Cancer (BJC, Br J Cancer), a peer-reviewed oncology journal founded in 1947, published by Springer Nature with Cancer Research UK; ISSN 0007-0920, 2025 impact factor 7.8, semimonthly.
British judges in Hong Kong and China
British judges served in China's consular courts from 1833 to 1943 and on Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal until foreign judges departed in 2024 and 2025.
British Legion (American Revolutionary War)
The British Legion was a Loyalist mixed cavalry-and-infantry regiment of the American Revolutionary War, raised in New York in July 1778 under Sir Henry Clinton and commanded by Banastre Tarleton; famous for Waxhaws, defeated at Cowpens.
British Library
The British Library is the UK's national library, formed in 1973 under the British Library Act 1972, holding over 170 million items across London and Boston Spa, administering legal deposit and Public Lending Right.
British Library cyberattack
The British Library cyberattack was an October 2023 Rhysida ransomware attack that stole 600 GB of data, destroyed servers, and forced a multi-year rebuild after the Library refused a 20 bitcoin ransom.
British Malaya
British Malaya, also called Pan-Malaya, was the British-held Malay Peninsula territories (Straits Settlements, Federated and Unfederated Malay States) from the late 18th century to 1957, built on tin and rubber and ending with the Federation of Malaya's independence.
British Malayan headhunting scandal
The British Malayan headhunting scandal of 1952: Daily Worker photographs of British soldiers and Iban trackers posing with severed heads of MNLA suspects during the Malayan Emergency, the government denial, and the decision not to punish those involved.
British Medical Association
The British Medical Association (BMA) is the professional association and registered trade union for UK doctors, founded in 1832, bargaining on NHS pay and conditions.
British Military Administration (Libya)
The British Military Administration was the United Kingdom's military government over Cyrenaica and Tripolitania in former Italian Libya, established in 1943 and lasting until independence in 1951.
British Museum
The British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, founded 1753 and opened 1759, was the world's first national public museum. It holds over 8 million works spanning two million years, offers free admission, drew 6.4 million visits in 2025, and is governed under the British Museum Act 1963.
British National (Overseas) passport
British National (Overseas) passport, or BN(O)/BNO passport: British travel document for holders of British National (Overseas) status created by the Hong Kong Act 1985 for Hong Kong BDTCs before the 1997 handover; non-transmissible, no automatic UK residence, but base for the 2021 BN(O) visa route to settlement.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.