Britain,Great Britain,U.K.,UK,United Kingdom,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland- a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the Uni...
Esperance was named by the French, the first Europeans credited with landing in the bay in 1792, off the ship l’Esperance – The Hope. To get the most out of the experience and the area, the Esperance’s Great Ocean Drive is a 38km loop that takes in the best landscapes and vistas ...
The country's fourth major flooding this year saw wild weather pummel parts of southwest New South Wales (NSW) and northeast Victoria overnight, bursting river banks and piling on more pain for flood-weary residents. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Twitter the flash flooding was "...
With a population hovering near three million, Chicago is the state’s largest and the country’s third most populous city. In addition, the... Havana Havana, city, capital, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. It also constitutes one of Cuba’s 15 provinces: Ciudad de ...
In 1700, 18.7 per cent of the population of England and Wales lived in towns. By 1750 this had risen to 22.6 per cent and by 1801 it reached 30.6 per cent. In the nineteenth century urban growth, thus measured, was still more striking, with 54 per cent of the population living in ...
Tearing the Heart out of One of Wales' Most Historic Market Towns; It's Been an Integral Part of South Wales Agriculture for Generations but, as First Reported in the Western Mail Last Week, Its Future Looks Bleak. Peter Collins Looks Back at More Than Sev ...
By 1801 there were 907 in England and Wales. A passion for the post: for 400 years the delivery of letters has been integral to British life. As Royal Mail confronts an uncertain future, Susan Whyman charts the Post Office's development and discovers, through the correspondence of ordinary ...
This paper will examine population drifts from country towns to cities and from the inland to the coastal regions and, in particular, the outmigration of young people. In doing this, the paper focuses on several small towns in central New South Wales that have been the subject of intensive ...
Soon after World War I, new interregional migration flowscommencedwhen the formerly booming 19th-century industrial and mining districts lost much of their economic momentum. Declining or stagnating heavy industry in Clydeside, northeastern England, SouthWales, and parts of Lancashire andYorkshireswelled ...
Wales has shared a legal identity with England as the joint entity of England and Wales. The Act of Union with the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 created the Kingdom of Great Britain, subsuming England, Wales and Scotland into a single political entity. Scotland, along with Northern Ireland, ...