Answers to III. Blank Filling: Introduction: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England; Scotland; Wales European Union Multiracial; non-European Britain’s; center; the three; the world Chapter 1 four, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland the Roman empire, Vikings, the Normans the 5th London, government, economy, culture overrule the parliament Glasgow, Edinburgh Scotland 72, 38 Edinburgh, beauty British, investment, America Chapter 2 1914; the First World War the Easter Rising; Post Office; military means parliament; dominance; a Civil Rights; equality Official; political process; election Provisional; armed force paramilitary; Catholics trial; internment “political prisoners”; give in; 11 civil rights march; British soldiers; Bloody Sunday pressure; solution political; Ireland; the Bullet and the Ballot Box a cease fire; the SDLP; Sinn Fein Sinn Fein; the IRA the Royal Ulster Constabulary Chapter 3 King Egbert the sovereign derived his authority from God, not from his subjects roundheads; royalists/cavaliers John; Magna Carta the Great Council the Bill of Rights the Prime Minister the Queen; the House of Commons statute law; the common laws; conventions pass laws the Queen; the House of Lords; the House of Commons Windsor Castle; Buckingham Palace the Prime Minister; the sovereign male/patrilineal Chapter 4 651; the parliament the government; the Prime Minister 5 vote of no confidence the list of citizens eligible to vote percentage of vote constituency campaign opinion polls the Conservative party; the Labour party; the Liberal Democrats the National Health Service John Major; Tony Blair Chapter 5 India; raw materials domestic industrial investment; overseas investment a relative; an absolute the International Monetary Fund Margaret Thatcher; privatization international direct investment primary; tertiary/service BSE disease North Sea drug; ICI The London Stock Exchange jet engine Chapter 6 Beowulf The Canterbury Tales tragedies; comedies; historical plays Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights novelists; critics Walter Scott; Robert Louis Stevenson; Oliver Twist; Bleak House Modernism; Postmodernism 20th; female; the stream of consciousness Joseph Conrad; John Fowles; George Orwell The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Le Carre Chapter 7 Football; tennis the Football Association Cup Wimbledon cricket Scottish/Scots; St Andrews flat racing; steeple chasing the Royal Ascot Equestrianism Hunt saboteurs angling Chapter 8 Jewish, Muslim the birth of Jesus Christ; Easter The Christmas Pantomime; the principal boy; the Dame Boxing Day Ramadan dragon dances Trooping the Colour; Buckingham Palace Guy Fawkes Night William of Orange; the Boyne 12 July patron saint of Ireland; Trinity first-footing Burns Supper; the Eisteddfod Halloween Chapter 9 Oxford; Cambridge Eton; Winchester five; sixteen five; eleven; primary secondary; nineteen state; private private; education general; academic; practical St. Andrews; Glasgow (or Edinburgh; Aberdeen) Open University General Certificate of Secondary Education General Certificate of Education --- Advanced General National Vocational Qualifications Chapter 10 owner-occupation mortgage flats; terraced houses; semi-detached houses; detached houses suburban; inner-city blue-collar; white-collar lower middle The Guardian; The Sun Oxbridge hereditary aristocracy India; Caribbean Chapter 11 imperial; Canada; Australia setting up; the five; the UN Security Council imperial; geopolitical traits the United States; influences airlines; the Channel Tunnel; Europe the Prime Minister; Cabinet the Foreign and Commonwealth Office parliamentary; electorate a forum; network fifty; developing; advanced defence; the third; the fifth or sixth nuclear; superpowers bloc; presence; nuclear deterrent submarines Chapter 12 watching telly; reading newspapers; listening to the radio newspaper, national; daily ten; The Times; The Guardian quality; in-depth; a middle class The Guardian or The Times the tabloids; the gutter control; censorship; limit the British Broadcasting Corporation; broadcaster; television two; special interest audiences the Guardian; green politics; social issues a paper; the tabloids The Financial Times the Official Secret Act; secret functions; information; forming a national culture