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HISTORY:

Prehistoric Britain - Stonehenge, The Celtic people, Anglo Saxon Britain, Viking Britain; Medieval Britain: Norman Conquest 1066, The Battle of Hastings, Magna Carta, Black Dead of 1348, Hundred Year War with France, War of the Roses 1485; Tudor Britain: Church of England, Act of Union joins England and Wales, Elizabethan Era 1553-1603; Stuart Britain: Guy Fawkes, The Pilgrims and New England, Great Plague, Great Fire of London, Act of Union between Scotland and England; Georgian Britain: Industrial Revolution, Act of Union with Ireland, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Waterloo.

FAMOUS LANDMARKS AND ATTRACTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Giant's Causeway, Houses of Parliament, Stonehenge, Number 10 Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, Hadrian's Wall, Windsor Castle, King's College, Cambridge,

Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, The London Eye, St Paul's Cathedral, St David’s Cathedral, Carrick-a-rede, Snowdonia National Park, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness

HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS

St. Patrick’s Day (dressing, date, Green, shamrock, customs), Halloween (date, pumpkin, “trick or treat”, apple bobbing), Guy Fawkes’ Day (date, firework, Bonfire Night), New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day (customs), St. Valentine’s Day (traditions), Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday, date, pancakes symbolised…), April Fools’ Day (date, jokes, traditions), Mother’s Day (customs), Notting Hill Carnival (date, customs, parades, costumes)

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Queen Elisabeth II, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, Thatcher Margaret, Prince William, Kate Middleton, J.K. Rowling, Isaac Newton, James Watt, Charles Robert Darwin, Alexander Fleming, Alexander Graham Bell, Alfred Hitchcock, Rowan Atkinson, Diana, Princess of Wales, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Clive Staples Lewis, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leam Neeson, George William Russell

LITERATURE:

Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, Caedmon's Hymn, Everyman, King Arthur, the Middle Ages, William Blake, Lord George Gordon Byron, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Frankenstein's Creature in Mary Shelley's novel, Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; George Orwell, Animal Farm, Jonathan Swift.

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