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Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of England, Scotland and Wales. With an area of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The island of Ireland, with an area 40 per cent that of Great Britain, is to the west—these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, form the British Isles archipelago.Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a landbridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about 61 million, making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan, and the most populated island outside of Asia. The term "Great Britain" can also refer to the political territory of England, Scotland and Wales, which includes their offshore islands. This territory and Northern Ireland constitute the United Kingdom. The single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the 1707 Acts of Union between the kingdoms of England (which at the time incorporated Wales) and Scotland. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
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Feral
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Ellis' British Railway Engineering Encyclopaedia
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A History of Britain
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Making the Connections: Radical Books Today
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The Parlour book of British scenery, architecture, and antiquities
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Lithographic impressions from sketches of British scenery
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England delineated
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Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales
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The complete English traveller
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Index Villaris
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De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniæ
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What's in a name? being an inquiry, how far the practice of substituting the name England for Great Britain, as that of the United Kingdom, is legitimate in itself, or injurious to Scotland, by the author of letters from a north Briton to Lord Palmerston
Works about Great Britain 101
- The Marching Season
- The Second World War
- Candide
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- The Winter King
- The Burning Land
- The Once and Future King
- The Heart of Midlothian
- Political Justice
- The Thirty-nine Steps
- Clockwork Angel
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- The Hammer and the Cross
- Christopher and His Kind
- Puck of Pook's Hill
- SS-GB
- A Dream of John Ball
- Cat among the Pigeons
- Coasting
- Confessions of an Actor
- Conqueror
- Darkwitch Rising
- Day
- Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years
- Diary of an Ordinary Woman
- Divided Kingdom
- Emperor
- Enemy of God
- Ethel and Ernest
- Farthing
- Fire, Bed, and Bone
- Free Agent
- The Black Moth
- The Grand Sophy
- The Quiet Gentleman
- These Old Shades
- Clockwork Prince
- Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
- Half a Crown
- The Elusive Pimpernel
- Colonel Jack
- The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
- Half Bad
- David Lloyd George - The Great Outsider
- Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow
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