British History

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1 Winston Churchill 11x

2 Henry VIII 8x

3 Oliver Cromwell 7x

4 Margaret Thatcher 7x

5 Queen Victoria 7x

6 Queen Elizabeth I 7x

7 Benjamin Disraeli 7x

8 the Magna Carta 6x

9 India 6x

10 Florence Nightingale 6x

11 Eton 5x

12 Samuel Pepys 5x

13 William the Conqueror 4x

14 Wales 4x

15 the Tower of London 4x

16 tea 4x

17 George III 4x

18 France 4x

19 Cornwall 4x

20 Charles II 4x

21 parliament 4x

22 Thomas Becket 4x

23 Charles Darwin 4x

24 Westminster Abbey 3x

25 the House of Lords 3x

26 Scotland 3x

27 Oxford 3x

28 Lady Jane Grey 3x

29 Julius Caesar 3x

30 John 3x

31 Jack the Ripper 3x

32 Henry VII 3x

33 Canterbury 3x

34 the Pope 3x

35 the Chunnel 3x

36 Prince of Wales 3x

37 Newton 3x

38 Drake 3x

39 Windsor 2x

40 William Wallace 2x

41 William & Mary 2x

42 Welsh 2x

43 Tudor 2x

44 Thomas More 2x

45 the Wars of the Roses 2x

46 the Vikings 2x

47 the Suez 2x

48 the Spanish Armada 2x

49 the Restoration 2x

50 the mace 2x

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The only British Prime Minister to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Winston Churchill

He's buried in St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, beside his third wife

Henry VIII

When he died in 1658, his son Richard succeeded him as Lord Protector

Oliver Cromwell

In 1984 she narrowly escaped assassination as her hotel bathroom was destroyed by an IRA bomb

Margaret Thatcher

Monarch known for dressing in black, she mourned her husband Albert for 40 years

Queen Victoria

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Other 560

Margaret Thatcher (8) Oliver Cromwell (8) Benjamin Disraeli (7) Queen Victoria (7) Elizabeth I (6) Florence Nightingale (6) Henry VIII (5) Eton (5) France (5) Newton (5)

Medieval 54

the Magna Carta (7) Henry VIII (2) Tudor (2) Henry VII (2) Richard the Lionhearted (2) William the Conqueror (2) the Vikings (2) Sir Gawain (1) (Samuel) Pepys (1) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1)

Ancient 27

Julius Caesar (3) Britannia (2) the Druids (2) the BBC (1) Big Ben (1) Winston Churchill (1) Albion (1) Elgin (1) Hadrian's Wall (1) Villas (1)

World War II 16

Winston Churchill (9) Rudolf Hess (1) Enigma (1) Dunkirk (1) Clement Attlee (1) Africa (1) D-Day (1) Baskin-Robbins (1)

Colonial / Exploration 12

Sir Walter Raleigh (3) Drake (2) Rhodes (1) Livingstone (1) Shackleton (1) Sir Richard Burton (1) Bermuda (1) Belize (1) India (1)

Civil War 9

the English Civil War (2) Wales (1) Model Army (1) the Cavaliers (1) the Puritans (1) the Wars of the Roses (1) Oxford (1) Whitehall (1)

Revolutionary Era 6

the Industrial Revolution (1) Glorious (1) India (1) Cornwallis (1) James II (1) 1688 (1)

World War I 6

the Mauretania (1) the Royal Air Force (1) the Channel Islands (1) Lloyd George (or Asquith) (1) Churchill (1) Neville Chamberlain (1)

Cold War 1

the Cuban Missile Crisis (1)

Modern (post-1990) 1

Tony Blair (1)