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United Kingdon

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 Information:

• The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as

the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country in north-western Europe, off
the north-­western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the
island of Great Britain, the north-­eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many
smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with
the Republic of Ireland. Otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic
Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic
Sea to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish
Sea separates Great Britain and Ireland. The total area of the United Kingdom is 94,000
square miles (240,000 km2).
 Kingdom of Great Britain

• On 1 May 1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain was formed, the result of Acts of

Union being passed by the parliaments of England and Scotland to ratify the
1706 Treaty of Union and so unite the two kingdoms
• In the 18th century, cabinet government developed under Robert Walpole, in practice
the first prime minister (1721–1742). A series of Jacobite Uprisings sought to remove
the Protestant House of Hanover from the British throne and restore the
Catholic House of Stuart. The Jacobites were finally defeated at the Battle of
Culloden in 1746, after which the Scottish Highlanders were brutally suppressed. The
British colonies in North America that broke away from Britain in the American War
of Independence became the United States of America, recognised by Britain in 1783.
British imperial ambition turned towards Asia, particularly to India.
Interwar years and the Second World War
Literature
British literature" refers to literature associated
with the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the
Channel Islands. Most British literature is in the
English language. In 2005, some 206,000 books
were published in the United Kingdom and in 2006
it was the largest publisher of books in the world.
The English playwright and poet William
Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest
dramatist of all time. The 20th-century English
crime writer Agatha Christie is the best-selling
novelist of all time.
Eight of the top 10 of 100 novels by British writers
chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written
by women; these included works by George
Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte and Emily Bronte,
and Mary Shelley.
Devoliton:
In the United Kingdom, devolution is the Parliament of the United
Kingdom statutory granting of a greater level of self-
government to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Parliament,
the Northern Ireland Assembly and the London Assembly and to
their associated executive bodies the Scottish Government,
the Welsh Government, the Northern Ireland Executive and in
England, the Greater London Authority and combined authorities.
Devolution differs from federalism in that the devolved powers of
the subnational authority ultimately reside in central government,
thus the state remains, de jure, a unitary
state. Legislation creating
devolved parliaments or assemblies can be repealed or amended
by central government in the same way as any statute.
Devolution does not alter UK Parliamentary sovereignty, which
means the UK Parliament can pass and repeal legislation for all
parts of the United Kingdom, including in relation to devolved
matters.
 History
Prior to the Treaty of Union

Settlement by anatomically modern humans of what was to

become the United Kingdom occurred in waves beginning by
about 30,000 years ago. By the end of the region's prehistoric
period, the population is thought to have belonged, in the
main, to a culture termed Insular Celtic, comprising Brittonic
Britain and Gaelic Ireland. The Roman conquest, beginning in 43
AD, and the 400-year rule of southern Britain, was followed by
an invasion by Germanic Anglo-Saxon settlers, reducing the
Brittonic area mainly to what was to become
Wales, Cornwall and, until the latter stages of the Anglo-Saxon
settlement, the Hen Ogledd (northern England and parts of
southern Scotland).Most of the region settled by the Anglo-
Saxons became unified as the Kingdom of England in the 10th
century. Meanwhile, Gaelic-speakers in north-west Britain (with
connections to the north-east of Ireland and traditionally
supposed to have migrated from there in the 5th
century) united with the Picts to create the Kingdom of
Scotland in the 9th century.