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A quarterstaff (plural quarterstaffs or quarterstaves), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European polearm, which was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period. The term is generally accepted to refer to a shaft of hardwood from 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 m) long, sometimes with a metal tip, ferrule , or spike ...
Foresters traces its origins to a British Friendly Society, a mutual organization caring for the sick.Membership was originally gained by combat, first with quarterstaffs, then with swords and finally with cudgels, until initiation by combat was abandoned in 1843.
This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through the duration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922, and since then dealing with those of the present-day United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
James Figg was born in Thame, Oxfordshire, [6] [3] sometime before 1700, though various sources dispute the exact year. [a] He was also possibly born in Priestend, to Francis and Elizabeth Figg, as one of their seven children. [2]
The first known reference in English verse to Robin Hood is found in The Vision of Piers Plowman, written by William Langland in the second part of the 14th century. Little John appears in the earliest recorded Robin Hood ballads and stories, [1] and in one of the earliest references to Robin Hood by Andrew of Wyntoun in 1420 and by Walter Bower in 1440.
The Monarch is the living embodiment of the United Kingdom.. Symbols of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is a list of the national symbols of the United Kingdom, its constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), and the Crown Dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man).
(trading as UK Export Finance) The Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP Secre tary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade: Tim Reid Chief Executive [20] [21] Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: The Rt Hon David Lammy MP Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs: Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE ...
This is a list of largest United Kingdom employers.There are four main kinds of employers, public sector bodies; public listed companies (plc) such as those on the FTSE 100