The longest-serving consort in British history, Philip married then-Princess Elizabeth in November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
One of the most controversial kings in British history, Richard III was demonised by Shakespeare as a murderous usurper with a hunchback.
We have had the longest period of sustained economic growth in British history.
This was the biggest mass murderer in British history and there was no business in letting him out of prison.
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That led to one of the most bitter industrial disputes in British history, her standoff against striking coal miners in the 1980s.
The most famous constitutional document in British history, the Magna Carta, will also go on display there for the duration of the conference.
It is still left with a formidable leader who deserves to be remembered as one of the four greatest Prime Ministers in British history.
Prince Charles has become the longest-serving heir apparent in British history.
And in 1988, terrorists working for Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, the worst act of mass murder in British history.
Breay says although the meaning of Magna Carta over the centuries has become different from its original purpose, it still represents a pivotal moment in British history.
The 1990 regulation requiring a broadcaster's owners to be "fit and proper" has been wielded only once in British history: against an adult-entertainment company called Bang Channels Ltd. whose licenses were revoked in late 2010 after airing content deemed too explicit.
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But the comparison that is most likely to interest politicians of Lord Jenkins's generation is the one made between the current Blair cabinet and what was, on paper, the most academically distinguished government in British history, Harold Wilson's Labour administration of 1964-70.
It has been described by the Home office as "the most significant democratic reform of policing in our lifetime" but there have also been warnings that turnout in the elections for the police and crime commissioners could be the lowest in British history.
Announcing they were writing to the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, the lawyers said that a single super-inquiry into two of the worst rail disasters in British history would provide the investigation with the power it needs to force through major changes in safety.
Only once in recent British history has there been a limited exception to this.
His correspondents included some of the most significant politicians in recent British history, and celebrated authors and poets.
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The UK's contribution to the UN operation in Cyprus began in 1964 making it the longest peacekeeping mission in British military history.
Thus ended one of the most remarkable careers in British political history.
It is the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history.
Retirement was mostly spent in the sunshine of Florida, where he could look back on a partnership that became the most popular in British television history.
If Mr Obama resembles anyone in recent British history, it is Tony Blair, another leader from everywhere and nowhere, who synthesised charisma, optimism and gushy rhetoric without causing too much alarm.
What remains constant is the pleasure students have always taken in decorating their rooms when they arrive at university, says Dr Jane Hamlett, a lecturer in modern British history at the university's department of history.
But it was his role as the predatory Uncle Monty in Withnail And I - which has become of one of the biggest cult classics in British cinema history - that made him a fan favourite.
Ferguson's comments comes in a rare interview with CNN's Pedro Pinto as United chase back-to-back European and English titles to add to their haul of 24 titles in his 23 seasons in charge -- a record that makes the Scot the most successful manager in British football history.
To be clear, it is perfectly natural for questions to be asked about whether a chief executive should retain a badge indicating that he is revered nationally in some kind of way, after his reckless expansion of Royal Bank of Scotland led to the biggest taxpayer bailout in British corporate history and contributed to the darkest deepest recession since the 1930s.
They describe the draft as "un-British" in that, even at moments of national crisis and retrenchment, during for example two world wars, "governments always understood the need to keep the tradition of world history alive in schools and to have an emphasis on British history in the context of the world".
In Oman, which in 2001 hosted the largest British overseas military exercise in recent history, the defence relationship is so close that a British two-star Major General is stationed permanently in the capital Muscat, to oversee the relationship.
In an act of solidarity, the American colonists took a final stand and in one of the most famous moments in history, destroyed British imports, boycotting their taxes and halting their tyrannical momentum.
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The show's fascination lies not only in its neatly focused history of British photography, but also in its ability to capture the peculiar essence of an English seaside town complete with fish and chip shops and crowded piers.
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