UK topics - Definition and Overview

This is a list of topics related to the United Kingdom.

Geography and the environment

• Great Britain
• United Kingdom
• England
• Scotland
• Wales
• Ireland, consisting of:
  • Northern Ireland
  • Republic of Ireland (not part of the United Kingdom)

• Isle of Man (not part of the United Kingdom)
• Channel Islands (not part of United Kingdom)

Geography of the United Kingdom

Main article: Geography of the United Kingdom (see also: Geography of Ireland)

• British Sea Areas
• Cities of the United Kingdom
• Economic geography of the United Kingdom
• County name etymologies
• Extreme points of the United Kingdom
• Conurbations in the United Kingdom
• National Parks, England and Wales
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
• Towns of the United Kingdom

England

• Administrative counties of England
• Ceremonial counties of England
• Regions of England
• Subdivisions of England
• Traditional counties of England
• List of towns in England

Northern Ireland

• List of towns in Northern Ireland

Scotland

• Lieutenancy areas of Scotland
• List of burghs in Scotland
• Subdivisions of Scotland
• Traditional counties of Scotland
• National Parks, Scotland

Wales

• Ceremonial counties of Wales
• List of towns in Wales
• Subdivisions of Wales
• Traditional counties of Wales

United Kingdom main page

• Demographics of the United Kingdom
• Population of England - historical estimates

Historical states of the British Isles

• Ancient Britain
• Roman Britain
• Heptarchy
• States in Medieval Britain
• Kingdom of Ireland
• Commonwealth of England
• Kingdom of Great Britain (when England & Scotland merged in 1707);
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (when Great Britain and Ireland merged in 1801)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the modern state nominally known as the United Kingdom

United Kingdom overseas territories

Main article: Dependent territories of the United Kingdom

• Anguilla
• Bermuda
• British Antarctic Territory
• British Indian Ocean Territory
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Falkland Islands
• Gibraltar
• Montserrat
• Pitcairn Islands
• Saint Helena
  • Ascension Island
  • Tristan da Cunha
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus
• Turks and Caicos Islands

Environment

• Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Environmentally Sensitive Area
• Climate of the United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom Climate Change Programme
• Conservation in the United Kingdom
• National Nature Reserves
• Trees in Great Britain
• National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
• Site of Special Scientific Interest
• Rivers of the United Kingdom
• Waterways in the United Kingdom
  • British Waterways
  • History of the British canal system
  • Reservoirs and dams in the United Kingdom
• List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom
  • The Great Storm of 1987

Built environment

• Abbeys and priories in England
• Bridges
  • Crossing the Thames, including tunnels
• Council house
• Housing association
• Historic houses in England
• National House Building Council
• New towns
• Piers

Transport in the United Kingdom

Main article: Transport in the United Kingdom

• Railway system
  • History
  • Stations A-Z
• British car number plates
• British Road Numbering Scheme
• List of British car manufacturers
• List of motorways in the United Kingdom
• Vehicle Excise Duty (car tax)
• Waterways in the United Kingdom
• Tunnels in the United Kingdom
• Cycleways in the United Kingdom

See also

• Geology of the United Kingdom

History

Main article: History of Britain

• History of the United Kingdom
  • History of England
    • History of London
    • England: Absolutism and Constitutionalism
  • History of Scotland
  • History of Wales
  • History of Ireland
  • British Empire and the Commonwealth
  • Ancient Britain
  • Roman Britain

Commerce and industry

Money, economics and business

• Bank of England
• Bank of Scotland
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• British coinage
• British banknotes
• Pound Sterling
• Private Finance Initiative

• Economy of the United Kingdom
  • Tourism in England
  • Tourism in Scotland
  • Tourism in Wales
  • Tourism in Northern Ireland
• The Industrial revolution
• The Great Depression in the United Kingdom

• List of British companies
• British Professional Bodies

Regulatory bodies

• Advertising Standards Authority
• Office of Communications (Ofcom)
• Office of the Water Regulator (Ofwat)
• Press Complaints Commission

Politics, monarchy and military

Politics of the United Kingdom

• Parliament of the United Kingdom
  • List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
  • List of Parliaments of Great Britain
  • House of Commons
    • List of British MPs
  • House of Lords
• Government of the United Kingdom
  • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Cabinet of the United Kingdom
  • Intelligence Services
  • Local Government in the United Kingdom
    • Local government in England
  • Public Bodies and Task Forces of the UK Government
• Constitution of the United Kingdom
• Elections in the United Kingdom
• Referendums in the United Kingdom
  • UK referendum on EU constitution
• List of political parties in the United Kingdom
• Courts of the United Kingdom
• Pressure groups in the United Kingdom
• Foreign relations of the United Kingdom
• Ambassadors from the United Kingdom
• British honours system
• Politics of Scotland
  • Scottish Parliament
  • Members of the Scottish Parliament
  • Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999
  • Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003
  • Local government in Scotland
• National Assembly for Wales
  • Welsh Assembly Government

Criminal justice, law, policing and emergency services

• British Police
  • Serious Organised Crime Agency
  • Special Branch
  • Diplomatic Protection Group
• Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
• Crown Prosecution Service
• Serious Fraud Office
• Courts of England and Wales
• Her Majesty's Prison Service
  • United Kingdom prison population
  • List of United Kingdom prisons
• National Probation Service
• 9-9-9 Emergency telephone number
• English Law (also applies to Wales)
  • Constitutional Law
  • Magna Carta (1215)
  • Petition of Right (1628)
• Scots Law
• Common Law
• European Union Law

Monarchy

• List of British monarchs
• British Royal Family
• Coronation of the British monarch
• List of UK organisations with royal patronage
• List of UK place names with royal patronage
• Line of Succession to the British Throne
• Palaces
• Royal Train

Military

• Military of the United Kingdom
• The United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction
• Ministry of Defence
• British military history
  • British military history of World War II
  • Bletchley Park

Peerage

• Peerage of England
• Peerage of Scotland
• Peerage of Great Britain
• Peerage of Ireland
• Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Representative peer

Public inquiries

• List of selected British public inquiries

Charities and youth organisations

Charities

• British Heart Foundation (BHF)
• Cancer Research UK
• ChildLine
• Comic Relief
• Oxfam
• Macmillan Cancer Relief
• Mercy Corps
• National Library for the Blind
• NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
• Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB)
• Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
• Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC)
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• Samaritans
• Scope
• Scottish Refugee Council
• SOS Children's Villages UK
• The Sue Ryder Foundation
• Terrence Higgins Trust

See also: the Charity Commission

Youth organisations

• Boys' Brigade
• Girl Guides
• Scouting
• Woodcraft Folk
• Youth Hostels Association
• Air Training Corps

Media and communications

Television and radio

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Independent Television
• Channel 4
• S4C
• five
• List of radio stations in the United Kingdom
• List of television stations in the United Kingdom
• Content:
  • British humour
  • British sitcom
  • British comedy
  • 100 Greatest Kid's TV shows

Newspapers

• History of British newspapers
• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom

Communications

• Communications in the United Kingdom
• Office of Communications (Ofcom)
• Stamps and postal history of the United Kingdom
• List of postal codes in the United Kingdom (British postcodes)
• British telephone area codes (STD codes)
• Ukonline.gov.uk (central portal into various government websites)

Culture of the United Kingdom

Main article: Culture of the United Kingdom

British art

Main article: British art

• Art of the United Kingdom
• English school of painting
• National Gallery, London
• National Portrait Gallery
• Tate gallery
• Turner Prize

Music in the UK

Main article: Music in the UK

British popular music

• British popular music
• Early British popular music
• British Invasion
• New Wave of British Heavy Metal
• Britpop
• One-hit wonders in the UK
• United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Music Hall

Classical music

• BBC Symphony Orchestra
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO)
• Hallé Orchestra
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Philharmonia
• London Symphony Orchestra
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• The Proms
• British opera

Folk music

• Music of England
• Music of Scotland
• Music of Wales

Cultural icons

• Bagpipes (Scotland)
• Baked beans
• Big Ben chimes
• Black Cab (hackney cab)
• Bowler hat
• Britannia
• British Lion
• British Monarchy
• Brit Pop
• Bulldog
• Cool Britannia
• Cricket
• Fish and chips
• Football
• John Bull
• Kilt (Scotland)
• Marmite
• Pub
• Red post boxes
• Red telephone boxes
• Robin
• Robin Hood
• Routemaster bus
• Rugby
• Sherlock Holmes
• Swinging Sixties
• Tea (cup of)
• Tommy Atkins (generic name for a British soldier)
• Brodie helmet (helmet worn by the above)
• Umbrella
• Union Jack
• Weather

British theatre

Main article: British theatre

• Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
• Royal National Theatre
• Laurence Olivier Awards
• British Theatres

British film

Main article: Cinema of the United Kingdom

• British Film Institute
  • BFI Top 100 British films
• National Film and Television Archive
• British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
• British Independent Film Awards
• Carry On films

Museums

• Museums in England
• Museums in Northern Ireland
• Museums in Scotland
• Museums in Wales
• List of British railway museums

Gardens

• List of botanical gardens in the United Kingdom
• Gardens in England
• Gardens in Scotland
• Gardens in Wales
• Gardens in Northern Ireland

Other

• British humour

• British soap opera

• British literature
  • British Library
  • British comics

• Dance
  • Morris dance
  • Maypole Dancing

• Festivals in the United Kingdom

• Public house
  • CAMRA
  • Pub quiz

• Stiff upper lip

Education

• Education in the United Kingdom
• List of schools in the United Kingdom
• List of British Universities
• British bachelor's degree classification
• Public school (UK)
• School years (United Kingdom)
• Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education

Religion and ethnicity

• English nation
• History of the Jews in England
• Irish community in Britain

Religion in the United Kingdom

Main article: Religion in the United Kingdom

• Christianity
  • Church of England (the established state church in England)
  • Church of Scotland (the established state church in Scotland)
  • General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
  • Methodism
  • Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
  • Roman Catholic Church
  • United Reformed Church
  • Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Sikhism
• Buddhism
• Druidism
• See also:
  • Atheism/ Irreligion
  • Jedi (not a religion; despite campaign to enter it as such on 2001 census forms)

Ethnic groups

• English
• Scottish
• Welsh
• Ulster-Scots
• Cornish
• British Afro-Caribbean community
• British Asian community
• Travellers
  • Irish Travellers
  • Roma

Languages in the United Kingdom

Main article: Languages in the United Kingdom

• English
  • British English including dialects and regional accents
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • American and British English differences
  • Received Pronunciation
  • Estuary English
  • Cockney rhyming slang
  • Cant
  • Polari
  • Scottish English
  • West Country accents
• Celtic languages
  • Welsh
  • Scots Gaelic
  • Irish/Irish language in Northern Ireland
  • Cornish
• Scots in Scotland and Ulster
• British Sign Language (BSL)
• Romany
• Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi languages
  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • Punjabi
  • Urdu
  • Bengali

Food

• British cuisine
• Food and Drink Federation

Science and technology

• List of UK government scientific research institutes

Sports and games

The following are the major sports, local groups may well play many others.

Cricket

• Marylebone Cricket Club
• Middlesex County Cricket Club

Association football or soccer

• British Home Championship
• England
  • The Football Association
  • English national football team
  • FA Premier League
  • The Football League
  • FA Cup
  • English football league system
  • National League System
• Scotland
  • Scottish Football Association
  • Scottish national football team
  • List of Scottish Football Clubs
  • Scottish Football League
  • Scottish Premier League
  • Highland Football League
  • East of Scotland Football League
  • South of Scotland Football League
  • Scottish Junior Football Association
  • North Caledonian Football League
  • Scottish Cup
• Northern Ireland
  • Irish Football Association (not to be confused with the Football Association of Ireland)
  • Northern Ireland national football team
  • Irish Football League (not to be confused with the Football League of Ireland)
• Wales
  • Football Association of Wales
  • Welsh national football team
  • League of Wales

Rugby

• The Rugby league
• The Welsh Rugby Union
• The English Rugby Union
• The Scottish Rugby Union

Hiking

• Long-distance footpaths in the UK
• Ramblers' Association

Rowing

• Boat Race (Oxford vs Cambridge)
• Henley Royal Regatta

Skiing

• Ski Club of Great Britain

Other

• Curling
• Darts
• English billiards
• Eton Wall Game
• Fives (including Eton Fives)
• Lawn tennis
• Skittles
• Snooker

People

• List of English people
• List of Irish people
• List of Scots
• List of Welsh people

Interest groups and societies

• British Professional Bodies
• Women's Institute
• List of UK learned societies
• List of London's gentlemans' clubs
• Pressure groups in the United Kingdom
  • Fathers' rights movement in the UK

See also

• British national identity card
• Charities and youth organisations

Welfare state

• National Health Service
  • NHS Foundation Trust
• National Insurance
• Social security
• British pension system

Miscellaneous

• Imperial measurements
• Metrication
• List of famous British miles

See also

• Lists of country-related topics - similar lists for other countries