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The Life in the United Kingdom test is a computer-based test constituting one of the requirements for anyone seeking Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK or naturalisation as a British citizen. It is meant to prove that the applicant has a sufficient knowledge of British life.
Due to immigration from other countries, not all people residing in England and the United Kingdom are White.According to the 2011 census in England, around 85.4% of residents are White (British, Irish, other European), 7.8% Asian (mainly South Asian), 3.5% Black, 2.3% are of mixed-race heritage, 0.4% Arab, and 0.6% identified as Other ethnicity, with a significantly higher non-white ...
A History of Modern Britain (2009); covers 1945–2005. Marr, Andrew. Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged (2021), covers 1945 to 2020. Mathias, Peter. The transformation of England: essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century (Taylor & Francis, 1979), ISBN 0-416-73120-1; Mitchell, Sally..
Historian David Olusoga said the survey captured ‘one of the most dramatic and dangerous moments in history’.
Tourism plays a significant part in the economic life of England. In 2018, the United Kingdom as a whole was the world's 10th most visited country for tourists, [49] and 17 of the United Kingdom's 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites fall within England. [50] VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England.
[134] [135] The Bank of England, founded in 1694 as private banker to the government of England and a state-owned institution since 1946, is the United Kingdom's central bank. [136] The bank has a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, although not in other parts of the UK.
In “My Friends,” a woman seeks real-life inspiration for one of the most famous paintings in the world – three tiny figures sitting on a pier. Twenty-five years earlier, three teenagers ...
In 2006, 37 years after its first test flight, Concorde was named the winner of the Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC and the Design Museum. A total of 212,000 votes were cast with Concorde beating other British design icons such as the Mini, mini skirt, Jaguar E-Type, Tube map and the Supermarine Spitfire. [82]