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The British Council is a charity governed by Royal Charter. It is also a public corporation and an executive nondepartmental public body (NDPB), sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Its headquarters are in Stratford, London. Its chair is Paul Thompson, and its CEO is Scott McDonald .
Merchant Taylors' School (1561), one of the nine 'Clarendon' schools. Private schools in the United Kingdom (also called "independent" schools) [1] are schools that require fees for admission and enrollment. Some have financial endowments, most are governed by a board of governors, and are owned by a mixture of corporations, trusts and private ...
The Children's Overseas Reception Board ( CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [1] The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II. This was during a critical period in British history, between July and ...
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The British Youth Council, known informally as BYC, was a UK charity that worked to empower young people and promote their interests.The national charity, run by young people, exists to represent the views of young people to government and decision-makers at a local, national, European and international level; and to promote the increased participation of young people in society and public life.
British Orders in Council of 1807. Great Britain responded with the Orders in Council of 1807 issued on 6 January and 11 November 1807, extending the range and scope of the blockade instituted the previous year. [1] These forbade French trade with Great Britain, its allies, or neutrals, and instructed the Royal Navy to blockade French and ...
Tish Murtha. Patricia Anne "Tish" Murtha (14 March 1956 – 13 March 2013) was a British social documentary photographer best known for documenting marginalised communities, [1] social realism [2] and working class life [3] in Newcastle upon Tyne and the North East of England . The posthumously published books of her work are Youth Unemployment ...
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970 and again from March 1974 to April 1976.