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18th Century British Politicians Image Right - George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton , PC, ADC (23 November 1751 – 22 October 1789) British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780. Image by Richard Earlom - Public Domain, Wiki Commons It would be most helpful if when adding a profile you could please add it also to the alphabetical list below...
British Film Actors This is a list of notable actresses and male actors from the United Kingdom. This list includes acting people of film, radio, stage and television. Please take the time to link GENi profiles to the names in the following lists (using bold links) , and add unlisted British film actors and actresses who are not yet included. How to add a link is explained in the document - A...
British Television Actors The following list is from Wikipedia. Please add any British Television Actors and Actresses to this project. Names below in bold are links to profiles on Geni. A Amanda Abbington (born 1974) Joss Ackland (born 1928) Mark Addy (born 1964) Adele (born 1988) Jenny Agutter (born 1952) Freema Agyeman (born 1979) Caroline Aherne (1963–2016) Laura Aikman...
ENGLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects=This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in ENGLAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in Engla...
The Royal Navy (RN) Founded in 1660>>"In times of conflict or peace, the Royal Navy is key to the prosperity of Britain and the stability of the high seas. Explore our role on the global stage."===== Images; Right - "Peter Pomegranate" sister ship of the "Mary Rose " Photo by Gerry Bye. Original by Anthony Anthony. - Anthony Roll as reproduced in The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy: Pepys Li...
Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) British Armed Forces ( Officers )===Also known as The South African War Image Right - Boer War Memorial in St John's Gardens in Liverpool.>===== Geograph © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . A Project aiming to include the profiles of the Britishofficers who fought in Anglo Boer War in South Africa. (1899-1902). Please ad...
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord—a time travelling, humanoid alien known as the Doctor. He explores the universe in his 'TARDIS', a sentient time-travelling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, a common sight in Britain in 1963, when the series first aired. Along with a...
19th Century British Politicians Picture to right: General George Anson (1769-1849) British officer and politician who sat for many years as a Whig Member of Parliament. Image by Thomas Barber - BBC Your Paintings (now available by Art UK), Public Domain, Wiki Commons The list below is from Wikipedia UK MPs 1801–02 . Although there will be duplications through the years this is still...
The British Academy Film Awards and the British Academy Television Awards , collectively known as the BAFTA Awards , are presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).=Film categories===Current awards==* BAFTA Award for Best Film: since 1948* BAFTA Award for Best British Film: since 1948* BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language: since 1983* BAFTA Aw...
British Artists===== Image right - J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839 - National Gallery of Art, Public Domain, Wiki Commons The object of this project is to compile a list British artists and to link them to GENi profiles where possible.Some artists who were not born in the United Kingdom may have worked in Britain and are included if approp...
Early British Settlers in South Africa Purpose This is a project devoted to the British settlers/progenitors in South Africa. It has been set up primarily to accommodate those British Settlers who arrived before and after the 1820 Settlers. Please only add the profiles of the Progenitors who came from Britain - England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, although it may be necessary to have separa...
20th Century British Politicians = Image Right - James Callaghan (1912-2005) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980 ===== Image Public Domain, Wiki Commons This is a huge project as this list only represents MPs elected in 1945. There will of course be overlap over the years but still a massive undertaking. We welcome a...
Umbrella Project for the Politicians of Great Britain.=Pictured right: Benjamin Disraeli Please also add profiles to the apporpriate sub-project(s) associated with this umbrella project.== Projects under this umbrella: == 16th Century Members of Parliament 17th Century Members of Parliament 18th Century Members of Parliament 19th Century Members of Parliament 20th Century Members of Parliament ...
British celebrities have made a profound impact in all areas of the entertainment industry. including literature, music, film and television, as well as international sports. They command a great degree of public fascination and influence the everyday lives of peoples throughout the world.=Sub-Projects* British Film Actors * British Television Actors * British Stage Actors * Modern British Musi...
British Prisoners of War World War II Please add Geni profiles of WW2 Prisoners of War from Britain to this project.See also >===== World War II - American Prisoners >===== World War II - Prisoners of War from Canada >===== Others to Follow All PoWs were allegedly protected by rules for the treatment of prisoners of war which had been established in the Geneva Convention of 1929. See WIKI Briti...
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England=The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic record, but are interesting as representing the traditions as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries...
Wars of the Three Kingdoms= The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the "Personal Rule" of the same monarch. The English Civil War has become the best-known of these conflicts and included the execution of the Three Kingdoms' monarch, Charles I, by ...
Notables of Welsh background===Before 1200==* Rhodri Mawr 820-878* Llywelyn the Great 1172-1240* Gwladys Ddu 1194-1251==1200-1699==* Cydafael Ynnyd 1212--* Owain Glyndwr (Owen Glendower) 1349-1415* Dafydd Gam (Davy Gam) 1351-1415* Einion Sais 1380--
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is a drama school in London, England that provides training for film, television and theatre. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious drama schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1904 by Herbert Beerbohm Tree.RADA is an affiliate school of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Its higher education awards are validated by King's College London (K...
21st Century British Politicians =Because it is a contemporary list of people they will all be living. I would therefore suggest that the earlier centuries are a higher priority.Picture to right - Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell , DBE, PC (née Palmer; 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was a British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norw...
British slave owners “The #FridayFact was not only wrongly judged, in numerous respects it was just wrong.” THE LONG ROAD TO ABOLITION ■ In 1807, parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, effective throughout the British empire. ■ It wasn’t until 1838 that slavery was abolished in British colonies through the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British empire th...
The Merchant Navy is the United Kingdom maritime register and describes the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews. Merchant Navy vessels fly the Red Ensign and are regulated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). King George V bestowed the title of "Merchant Navy" on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War.===== Im...
Welsh Americans / Americanwyr Cymreig=Welsh Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Wales. In the 2008 U.S. Census community survey, an estimated 1.98 million Americans stated that they had Welsh ancestry, amounting to 0.6% of the total U.S. population. This compares with a population of 3 million in Wales. However, 3.8% of Americans appear to bear a Welsh surname....
Royal Academy of ArtsThe Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. It has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects; its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.== Purpose ==Identify members of...
British Coal Mine Workers=Coal mining in the United Kingdom probably dates to Roman times and took place in many different parts of the country. Britain's coalfields are associated with Northumberland and Durham, North and South Wales, Yorkshire, Scotland, Lancashire, the East and West Midlands and Kent. During the 1980s and 1990s the industry was scaled back considerably. In 2013, there were t...