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Margaret Thatcher led the Conservative government from 1979 to 1990.

The Millennium Stadium is located in Cardiff.

The clans lost a lot of their power and influence after Culloden. Chieftains became landlords if they had the favour of the English king, and clansmen became tenants who had to pay for the land they used.

In 2007, television viewers voted Wastwater as Britain’s favourite view.

From 1695, newspapers were allowed to operate without a government licence. Increasing numbers of newspapers began to be published.

The Norman Conquest was the last successful foreign invasion of England and led to many changes in government and social structures in England.

Richard Austen Butler (later Lord Butler) became a Conservative MP in 1923 and held several positions before becoming responsible for education in 1941.

The most famous tennis tournament hosted in Britain is The Wimbledon Championships, which takes place each year at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire, eastern England.

The Act of Union, known as the Treaty of Union in Scotland, was therefore agreed in 1707, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain.

False. The Council of Europe has NO power to make laws but draws up conventions and charters, the most well-known of which is the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, usually called the European Convention on Human Rights.

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were inspired to write about their experiences in the First World War.

If you are found driving while exceeding the alcohol limit you will be arrested.

The core values of civil servants include: integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality (including being politically neutral).

Croatia became a member state in 2013.

Anglo-Saxon kings continued to rule what is now England, except for a short period when there were Danish kings. The first of these was Cnut, also named Canute.

In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst helped found the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). This was the first group whose members were called ‘suffragettes’.

Owing money to someone is a civil offence.

The Boer War of 1899 to 1902 made the discussions about the future of the Empire more urgent. The British went to war in South Africa with settlers from the Netherlands called the Boers.

This statement is True.

In 1929, the world entered the ‘Great Depression’ and some parts of the UK suffered mass unemployment. The effects of the depression of the 1930s were felt differently in different parts of the UK. The traditional heavy industries such as shipbuilding were badly affected but new industries – including the automobile and aviation industries – developed.

Pool and darts are traditional pub games.

One of the most famous battles of the Hundred Years War was the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, where King Henry V’s vastly outnumbered English army defeated the French. The English left France in the 1450s.

The development of the Bessemer process for the mass production of steel led to the development of the shipbuilding industry and the railways.