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Roman name for the northern city of York
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Eboracum
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Two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England
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East Anglia
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Essex
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First Anglo-Saxon king to turn his back on paganism and convert to Christianity
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Æthelberht
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Legendary sword of King Arthur, known as Caledfwlch in Welsh
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Excalibur
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Queen who led England into her 'Golden Age', saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the end of the Tudor dynasty
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Elizabeth I
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First major battle of the English civil war
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Edgehill
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Central bank of the United Kingdom founded in 1694
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Bank of England
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Powerful trading company that governed large parts of the Indian sub-continent with a private military larger than most countries had at the time
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East India Company
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Royal Navy ship captained by James Cook on his voyage to Australia and New Zealand
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HMS Endeavour
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Collection of marble sculptures originally part of the Parthenon in Athens, currently housed in the British Museum
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Elgin Marbles
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Co-author of the Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx, first published in 1848
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Friedrich Engels
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Title given to Queen Victoria upon the founding of the British Raj
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Empress of India
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Subsequent executions of the leaders of this armed insurrection widely contributed to increased support for Irish Independence
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Easter Rising
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King who abdicated in 1936 over his proposal to marry an American divorcee
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Edward VIII
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Secret code used by the German navy during WWII that was cracked by Alan Turing and his team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park
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Enigma
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Precursor to the European Union, joined by the United Kingdom alongside Ireland and Denmark in 1973
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European Economic Community
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Agreement signed between the UK and Scottish governments, paving the way for a future referendum on independence
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Edinburgh Agreement
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