Little Britain

Beliefs: Russia was a Communist country, ruled by a dictator who cared little about human rights. America was a capitalist democracy, which valued freedom. 2. Aims: Stalin wanted reparations from Germany/ a buffer of friendly states. Britain and the USA [led by President Truman] wanted to help Germany recover/ to prevent large areas of Europe from coming under Communist control. 3. Resentment about history: The USSR did not trust Britain and the USA – They had tried to destroy the Russian Revolution

The United Kingdom of Great Britain The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located on the north-western coast of continental Europe. It is an archipelago including Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another country, wich is the Republic of Ireland. The UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel,

Newcastle, Glasgow, Belfast) > seaside resorts (Blackpool in the north, Brighton in the south > politics: no invasion since 1066 (Normans under William the Conqueror) > sense of isolation (“us against them”, especially after 1940 “Battle of Britain”) > sceptical attitude towards the “continent” (cf. EEC) + sense of continuity and tradition, preserved in many quaint customs and rituals and symbolized by the Monarchy. Latitude: a long narrow country (960 kms by 480). The N at same level as

Deluge. British Society and the First World War. London, Bodley Head, 1965 (2nd ed. with a new preface by Joanna Bourke). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. **MARWICK (Arthur). Britain in the Century of Total War. War, Peace and Social Change, 1900- 1967. London, Bodley Head, 1968. ***MOWAT (Charles Loch). Britain between the Wars, 1918-40. London, Methuen, 1955, ix, 694p. ***O’DAY (Alan). The Edwardian Age. Conflict and Stability 1900-1914. London, Macmillan (Problems in Focus), 1979, 199p

Victorian Ages was the period of the monarchy and empire, the Conservative, the Liberals, the progress in science and technology. The period ends in 1914, which marked both the apex of Britain international  supremacy and the beginning of his inexorable decline. On the eve (=veille) of the first world war, Britain possessed a largest empire that had  ever existed. It was a period of peace and rapid economic and industrial expansion due partly to the  empire, but also due to the dynamism of British entrepreneurs

Franco-British relationship During the first millennium there was little interaction between the two regions as both Britain and France were invaded by different Germany tribes. Mid eleventh century: French Normans invaded England under William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy and king of England from 1066 to his death) Victory of the William’s army against the Anglo Saxon army at Hastings in 1066. England was ruled from France, the language of the aristocracy was French; England was officially

est «malade», car ils ont du mal à se soigner. OBAMA essaie de mettre en place un système de santé obligatoire. Mais il y a eu des oppositions de la part du peuple américain. US healthcare in the last : In Britain, asking help for government. In USA, people à independence: little state intervention. OBAMA wants to intervention, also ROOSEVELT they are democrate, but BUSH doesn’t want to intervention, he is a republican. Great depression / credit crunch. Both president intervening

STL SMS LUCKY BRAKE Heroes: A driver collapses, and a 10-year-old saves a bus full of schoolkids. Just after lunch on oct. 3, Dawn Little found a message on her office answering-machine. It was from Ken Russell, principal of her kids' school. "Call as soon as you can," Russel told her. "I want to tell you something good that Larry has done." Little was still unprepared for Russell's report: Larry had singlehandedly stopped a runaway school bus and very possibly saved the lives of 19 children

to the living room where some cold drinks were waiting for me. Oh I was so happy to see him again and hold him in my arms! It has been such a while! Unfortunately Douglas couldn’t stay very long; he had to get back to work. This disappointed me a little. I have been missing him so much all these weeks! When he was gone I decided to start unpacking my luggage; however I found that the servants were already busy doing this. My Hindi is very bad so by waving my hand I tried to send them away. Now

instincts' and that it was `a skilful piece of political positioning'. However, the paper was very critical of the party's economic policy, saying that there was `little that is authentically liberal and radical', and that it had `the fusty whi€ of ``tax and spend'' social democracy about it'. It added: When Charles Kennedy says he wants to see a Britain where `as the country does better, the poor do best', he speaks the pure language of Croslandism . . . Such accusations were repeated in September 2002