List of United Kingdom-related topics

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

Contents

1 Geography and the environment 1.1 Geography of the United Kingdom 1.1.1 England 1.1.2 Northern Ireland 1.1.3 Scotland 1.1.4 Wales 1.2 United Kingdom main page 1.3 Historical states of the British Isles 1.4 United Kingdom overseas territories 1.5 Environment 1.6 Built environment 1.7 Transport in the United Kingdom 1.8 See also 2 History 3 Commerce and industry 3.1 Money, economics and business 3.2 Regulatory bodies 4 Politics, monarchy and military 4.1 Politics of the United Kingdom 4.2 Criminal justice, law, policing and emergency services 4.3 Monarchy 4.4 Military 4.5 Peerage 4.6 Public inquiries 5 Charities and youth organisations 5.1 Charities 5.2 Youth organisations 6 Media and communications 6.1 Television and radio 6.2 Newspapers 6.3 Communications 7 Culture of the United Kingdom 7.1 British art 7.2 Music in the UK 7.2.1 British popular music 7.2.2 Classical music 7.2.3 Folk music 7.3 Cultural icons 7.4 British theatre 7.5 British film 7.6 Museums 7.7 Gardens 7.8 Other 8 Education 9 Religion and ethnicity 9.1 Religion in the United Kingdom 9.2 Ethnic groups 10 Languages in the United Kingdom 11 Food 12 Science and technology 13 Sports and games 13.1 Cricket 13.2 Association football or soccer 13.3 Rugby 13.4 Hiking 13.5 Rowing 13.6 Skiing 13.7 Other 14 People 14.1 Interest groups and societies 14.2 See also 15 Welfare state 16 Miscellaneous 17 See also

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
• Climate of the United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom Climate Change Programme
• Conservation in the United Kingdom
• Environmentally Sensitive Area
• Green belts
• Trees in Great Britain
• National Nature Reserves
• National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
• Rivers of the United Kingdom
• Site of Special Scientific Interest
• 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
• Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland
• Abbeys and priories in Scotland
• Abbeys and priories in Wales
• Bridges
  • Crossing the Thames, including tunnels
• Council house
• Historic houses in England
• Housing association
• Housing Corporation
• National House Building Council
• New towns
• Piers
• Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom

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
• Common Travel Area

See also

• Geology of the United Kingdom

History

Main article: History of Britain and history of articles in other sections on this page.

• 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
• Housing Corporation
• 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
  • Databases in 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
  • Constitutional status of Cornwall
• 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 citizenship
• 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
• Human rights in the United Kingdom

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
• Style of the British Sovereign
• 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
• Society of St James
• SOS Children's Villages UK
• The Sue Ryder Foundation
• Sustrans
• Terrence Higgins Trust
• Wellcome 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)
• UK telephone numbering plan

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
• Beefeaters
• Britannia
• British Lion
• British Monarchy
• Brit Pop
• Bulldog
• Cool Britannia
• Cricket
• Fish and chips
• Football
• Haggis (Scotland)
• John Bull
• Kilt (Scotland)
• Last Night of the Proms
• Marmite
• Pub
• Red post boxes
• Red telephone boxes
• Robin
• Robin Hood
• Routemaster red double-decker bus
• Rugby
• Sherlock Holmes
• Swinging Sixties
• Tartan (Scotland)
• 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

• 100 Greatest Cartoons

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

• Immigration to the United Kingdom
• Commission for Racial Equality

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
  • History of the Jews in England
• 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 people
• Scottish people
• Welsh people
• Ulster-Scots
• Cornish
• Irish community in Britain
• British Afro-Caribbean community
• British Asian community
• Chinese British
• 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

• Databases in the United Kingdom
• 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 rats
  • 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
• List of Cornish people

Interest groups and societies

• British Professional Bodies
• Women's Institute
• List of UK learned societies
• List of London's gentlemen's 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
• Taxation in the United Kingdom

See also

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