42 Facts About British people

The progressive political unification of the British Isles facilitated migration, cultural and linguistic exchange, and intermarriage between the peoples of England, Scotland and Wales during the late Middle Ages, early modern period and beyond.

British people are a diverse, multinational, multicultural and multilingual society, with "strong regional accents, expressions and identities".

The social structure of the United Kingdom has changed radically since the 19th century, with a decline in religious observance, enlargement of the middle class, and increased ethnic diversity, particularly since the 1950s, when citizens of the British people Empire were encouraged to immigrate to Britain to work as part of the recovery from World War II.

Indigenous people of the British Isles have a combination of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Norman ancestry.

The new and expanding British people Empire provided "unprecedented opportunities for upward mobility and the accumulations of wealth", and so the "Scottish, Welsh and Irish populations were prepared to suppress nationalist issues on pragmatic grounds".

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People of Ireland are ready to become a portion of the British Empire, provided they be made so in reality and not in name alone; they are ready to become a kind of West Briton if made so in benefits and justice; but if not, we are Irishmen again.

War continued to be a unifying factor for the people of Great Britain: British jingoism re-emerged during the Boer Wars in southern Africa.

Protestantism gave way to imperialism as the leading element of British national identity during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and as such, a series of royal, imperial and national celebrations were introduced to the British people to assert imperial British culture and give themselves a sense of uniqueness, superiority and national consciousness.

Notions that the British people "constituted an Island race, and that it stood for democracy were reinforced during the war and they were circulated in the country through Winston Churchill's speeches, history books and newspapers".

Since the British people Nationality Act 1948 and the subsequent mass immigration to the United Kingdom from the Commonwealth and elsewhere in the world, "the expression and experience of cultural life in Britain has become fragmented and reshaped by the influences of gender, ethnicity, class and region".

British Empire was "built on waves of migration overseas by British people", who left the United Kingdom and "reached across the globe and permanently affected population structures in three continents".

British people iconography remains present in the design of many Canadian flags, with 10 out of 13 Canadian provincial and territorial flags adopting some form of British people symbolism in their design.

New Zealand values are British people values, derived from centuries of struggle since Magna Carta.

Citizenship matters were complicated by the fact that British nationality law treated those born in Hong Kong as British subjects, while the People's Republic of China did not recognise Hong Kong Chinese as such.

The main reason for this was that recognising these people as British was seen as a tacit acceptance of a series of historical treaties that the PRC labelled as "unequal", including the ones which ceded Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories to Britain.

The British people government recognising the unique political situation of Hong Kong, granted 3.

The Thirteen Colonies of British people America began an armed rebellion against British people rule in 1775 when they rejected the right of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them without representation; they proclaimed their independence in 1776, and constituted the first thirteen states of the United States of America, which became a sovereign state in 1781 with the ratification of the Articles of Confederation.

Linda Colley, a professor of history at Princeton University and specialist in Britishness, suggested that because of their colonial influence on the United States, the British find Americans a "mysterious and paradoxical people, physically distant but culturally close, engagingly similar yet irritatingly different".

British people investment helped Chile become prosperous and British people seamen helped the Chilean navy become a strong force in the South Pacific.

British people immigrants were important in the northern zone of the country during the saltpetre boom, in the ports of Iquique and Pisagua.

The British people legacy is reflected in the streets of the historic district of the city of Iquique, with the foundation of various institutions, such as the Club Hipico .

The Irish immigrants, who were frequently confused with the British people, arrived as merchants, tradesmen and sailors, settling along with the British people in the main trading cities and ports.

An important contingent of British people immigrants arrived between 1914 and 1950, settling in the present-day region of Magallanes.

British people families were established in other areas of the country, such as Santiago, Coquimbo, the Araucania, and Chiloe.

Customs taken from the British people include afternoon tea, football, rugby union and horse racing.

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British people arrived in the area which would become the modern-day South Africa during the early 18th century, yet substantial settlement only started end of the 18th century, in the Cape of Good Hope; the British people first explored the area for conquests for or related to the Slave Trade.

The British people Empire facilitated a knowledge of India's food tradition of "strong, penetrating spices and herbs".

British people dishes include fish and chips, the Sunday roast, and bangers and mash.

British people cuisine has several national and regional varieties, including English, Scottish and Welsh cuisine, each of which has developed its own regional or local dishes, many of which are geographically indicated foods such as Cheddar cheese, Cheshire cheese, the Yorkshire pudding, Arbroath Smokie, Cornish pasty and Welsh cakes.

British people are the second largest per capita tea consumers in the world, consuming an average of 2.

British people literature is "one of the leading literatures in the world".

Later periods like the Victorian Era saw a further flourishing of British people writing, including Charles Dickens and William Thackeray.

Revenue generated from the television licence is used to provide radio, television and Internet content for the British people Broadcasting Corporation, and Welsh language television programmes for S4C.

The BBC, the common abbreviation of the British people Broadcasting Corporation, is the world's largest broadcaster.

British people rock was born in the mid-20th century out of the influence of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from the United States.

The Church of England is legally recognised as the established church, and so retains representation in the Parliament of the United Kingdom through the Lords Spiritual, whilst the British people monarch is a member of the church as well as its Supreme Governor.

The British people monarch is an ordinary member and is required to swear an oath to "defend the security" of the church upon his or her accession.

Some major sports in the United Kingdom "were invented by the British people", including football, rugby union, rugby league and cricket, and "exported various other games" including tennis, badminton, boxing, golf, snooker and squash.

The experience of military, political and economic power from the rise of the British people Empire, led to a very specific drive in artistic technique, taste and sensibility in the United Kingdom.

Outside the United Kingdom, the influence of British people architecture is particularly strong in South India, the result of British people rule in India in the 19th century.

The second, or civic group, contained the items about feeling British people, respecting laws and institutions, speaking English, and having British people citizenship.

The Commission for Racial Equality found that with respect to notions of nationality in Britain, "the most basic, objective and uncontroversial conception of the British people is one that includes the English, the Scots and the Welsh".