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Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship. The Stationery Office. ISBN 0-11-341302-5. – now out of print; Home Office (2007). Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship (Second ed.). The Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-11-341313-3. Home Office (2013). Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents (3rd ed.). The ...
Brain Test Britain [ edit ] A collaboration with the Medical Research Council , Cambridge University , King's College London , the Alzheimer's Society and the BBC One Television programme, Bang Goes The Theory - this longitudinal experiment, launched in September 2009, sought to discover whether brain training games made any improvement to IQ ...
Letter from America was a weekly fifteen-minute spoken word radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and its predecessor, the Home Service, and around the world through the BBC World Service. From its first edition to its last, it was presented by Alistair Cooke , who would speak of a topical issue in the US, tying together different strands of ...
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Mark Abrams was born Max Alexander Abramowitz in Edmonton, North London in 1906 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Lithuania and Latvia to the East End of London in the 1890s. [1] He later described his father Abram Abramowitz, a journeyman bootmaker, shopkeeper, and house agent, as a 'philosophical anarchist'. [2]
Anna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr [1] OBE (surname pronounced / ˈ k ɑːr / KAR German pronunciation:; [2] 14 June 1923 – 22 May 2019) [3] was a German-born British writer and illustrator whose books sold more than 10 million copies around the world. [4]
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Historian David Olusoga said the survey captured ‘one of the most dramatic and dangerous moments in history’.