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88 Cards in this Set
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Bobbies |
Police officers: the metropilitan police service was founded by Robert Peel. |
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New scotland Yard |
Headquarters Metropolitan police. |
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Magistrates' courts |
All criminal cases start here. No jury, 2 or 3 magistrates and a district judge. |
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Crown court |
Magistrates court passes most serious cases to crown court |
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Supreme court |
House of lords, highest in UK |
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Justices of the Peace |
Locally elected, try minor cases |
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Court of criminal appeal |
Where a convicted person can appeal to have conviction quashed or sentence reduced |
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Central criminal court |
Crown court in city of london |
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Inns of court |
College for barristers, |
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Queen's councel |
Barrister 10 years in office l can wear silk gown. Precedence over other barristers |
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Scotland's law system |
More based on Dutch and Roman system |
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Crown prosecution system |
The party making the claim in a court case |
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Common law basis of the legal system of the United Kingdom |
Anglo-saxon concept, not Roman |
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Political Parties |
Labour, liberal democrats, tories |
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Defender of the faith |
Title king Henry VIII for writing against Protestantism |
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Fidei defensor |
Means defender of the faith. Initials FD still on British coin |
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Queen's rights |
To summon and dissolve parliament, refuse or approve a bill passed by parliament. |
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Head of treasury |
Minister of finance |
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State schools and independent schools |
State schools are funded by the government. |
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Public schools |
Prestigious and expensive |
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Eton harrow rugby |
Two school playing against each other |
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Red brick university |
6 civil unies more aimed on the practical things. Founded in main industrial cities of the UK |
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O levels |
Ordinary levels |
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International Baccalaureate |
Ages: 3-19, educational program to delevelop awereness of differences and wants to establish peace |
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National vocational qualifications |
Work based awards, need to be able to do their job accurately |
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School uniform |
Introduces during reign of Henry viii. |
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Compulsory school age |
16 |
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Sixth form college |
16-19 year old students study to get a levels or GCSE or whatever |
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sir winston |
Helped to stand against Hitler. Got some awards. Special guy |
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Robert Burns |
Scottish Poet, 1759-1796 |
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Dylon Thomas |
1914-1953, Welsch Poet, |
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Bram Stoker (Whitby |
1897: Dracula |
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●● Thomas Becket |
Archbishop Canterbury 12th century |
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Turner |
1775-1815 |
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Constable |
1776-1837 meer realistische landschappen |
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Hogarth |
1697-1764 Often several people doing stuff on his paintings |
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Rossetti |
1828-1882 Portraits |
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Hockney |
Bright colored surrealistic stuff 1937 |
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English trifle |
Custard, diced fruit, sponge fingers, whypped cream |
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Yorkshire pudding |
Batter consisting of eggs, flour, milk. sometimes beef and gravy |
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Full English breakfast |
bacon, fried, poached or scrambled eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter, sausages, baked beans, black pudding, bubble and squeek and hash browns. Northlands: Fried and grilled oatcakes replace bread |
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Christmas pudding |
Pum pudding, dried fruit held together by eggs and suet, sometimes moistened by treacle or molasses and flavoured with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and other spices. pudding is aged for a month, or even a year, alcohol precents it from spoiling. |
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Steak and kidney pie |
savoury pie, mixed diced beef, diced kidney, fried onion, brown gravy. |
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Spotted dick |
cylindrical pudding. suet, dried fruit (currants and raisins. custard. |
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Sunday dinner |
roasted meat, roast potato, veggies gravy |
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Scones |
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Victoria sponge |
raspberry jam, whipped cream or vanilla cream sandwiched between two sponge cakes. |
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Council estate |
reasonable rents for working class
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Terraced houses |
Linked houses, row houses, |
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Townhouses |
Often terraced, owned by someone who owns several houses |
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semi-detached house |
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Boudicca |
Queen of a tribe in England during Rome's occupation and leader of a resistance. Prasutagus left his wife (Boudicca) some things after his death, but the law of Rome was that Rome would get all of it. Rome was furious and started savage. Boudicca died in 63, killed by the Romans |
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Domesday Book |
William the conquerer wanted every possession and property to be recorded because people needed to pay taxes on that. |
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Sutton Hoo |
Graveyard at the south-east coast of England. It dates back to 7th century and contained many objects, like a helmet |
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The Troubles |
In 1968 and 1998 in Ireland. Guerilla wars. biggest issue: Unionist Protestants vs. Nationalistic Catholics. 1998: Good Friday agreement |
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Potato Famine |
1845-1850 Great Famine, Great Hunger Starvation, Disease and emigration |
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Easter Rising |
1916, six days, Nationalists in Ireland rebelled against GB rule |
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Irish Home rule |
1912, movement campaigned for Ireland as an almost independent place within GB |
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St. Patrick |
Other name before. 35 AD. Born in England, March 17th, Converted, Became bishop and evangelised in Ireland. |
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King Alfred of Wessex |
Alfred the Great 849-899 Stopped Vikings |
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1066 |
William the Normandy/conquerer, Battlle of Hastings Norman Invasion |
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410 |
German invasion: Jutes, Angles, Saxons |
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Conquest of whales |
1282, Edward the First, |
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Strongbow |
1171, Norman Barron and followers settle in Ireland. |
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Wars of the roses |
ended in 1485 Between Lancaster and York |
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Tudor Dynasty |
1485-1603, Fuedal system was no longer needed because they established government with professionals |
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Henry Tudor |
VII, First Tudor King |
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The first three wives of Henry VIII |
(Katherine of Aragon – Anne Boleyn – Jane Seymour)
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Division religions GB |
Scotland: Calvinism England: Anglicism Ireland: Catholicism |
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sir walter raleigh |
Poet, 1552-1618, Attempt to colonize Virginia |
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Francis Drake |
First Englishman going around the world |
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gunpowder plot |
Guy Fawkes, 1605 |
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English Civil war |
Parliamentarians (Roundheads) vs. Royalists (Cavaliers) 1642-1651 1649: Execution Charles I Oliver Cromwell 1651: Exile of Charles II |
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Glorious Revolution |
1688 Dutch Stadtholder William III (prince of Orange) and Mary Stuart Overthrow King James II |
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Restoration |
1660 Charles II |
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Hanoverians |
House of Hanovers 1771-1901(death Queen Victoria) |
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Great fire of london |
1666 |
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Great Plague |
1665-1666 |
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Battle of Boyne |
1690 James II trying to get his power back |
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Dissenters |
Not member of the big churches |
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act of union |
1707 Not only same monarch, but Scotland and England really merged |
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Industrial Revolution |
1760-1820 James Watt Invented steam engine 1781 |
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1783 |
Loss of United States George III |
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1800 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
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1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar Nelson led 27 ships and won from Spain and France |
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1815 |
Battle of Waterloo Napoleon defeated |
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1829 |
Robert Peel First Police force |
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Suffragettes |
1903 initiated 1918-1928 women suffrage |
