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Life in the UK test: Geography and Romans

I've started studying for my Life in the UK test next month. What follows are notes from my zettelkasten. Sorry, all: between work, children and this, I don't have time to think about anything more interesting, let alone offload it.

  • Read [[Deep Work by Cal Newport]]
  • Started [[Life in the United Kingdom- A Guide for New Residents]]

Life in the United Kingdom

Tags: #book #uk #lituk Title: Life in the United Kingdom- A Guide for New Residents Author: Home Office Published: 2020 (3rd edition) ISBN: 978-0-11-341340-9

  • Fundamental principles of British life:
    • Democracy
    • The rule of law
    • Individual liberty
    • Tolerance of other faiths and beliefs
    • Participation in community life
  • Responsibilities of all Britons are, to:
    • Respect and obey the law
    • Respect the rights of others, including their right to their own opinion
    • Treat others fairly
    • Look after yourself and your family
    • Look after your local patch, and the environment more broadly
  • The UK offers Britons:
    • Freedom of belief and religion
    • Freedom of speech
    • Freedom from unfair discrimination
    • The right to a fair trial
    • The right to join in the election of a government
  • Geography
    • The official name of the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    • Great Britain refers to England, Scotland and Wales
    • The Crown dependencies are:
      • The Isle of Man; and
      • The Channel Islands, made up of:
        • The Bailiwick of Jersey; and
        • The Bailiwick of Guernsey, comprising:
          • Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm
    • There are 14 British Overseas Territories:
      • Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus)
      • Anguilla (Caribbean)
      • Bermuda (North Atlantic)
      • British Antarctic Territory
      • British Indian Ocean Territory
      • British Virgin Islands (Caribbean)
      • Cayman Islands (Caribbean)
      • Falkland Islands
      • Gibraltar
      • Montserrat (Caribbean)
      • Pitcairn Islands (Pacific; officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands)
      • Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (South Atlantic)
      • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (South Atlantic)
      • Turks and Caicos Islands (North Atlantic)
    • Britain became permanent separated from the continent by the Channel around 10000 years ago.
  • The UK is governed from Westminster; parliaments or assemblies, with certain devolved powers, sit in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

[[Early British history]] [[British Roman history]] [[British Anglo-Saxon history]] (Empty, for the moment)

Early British history

Tags: #lituk

  • Hunter-gatherers came and went from Britain by a land bridge in the Stone Age
  • The first farmers arrived around 6000 years ago
    • South-east European descent
    • Built the monument Stonehenge
      • Skara Brae on Orkney is another, well-preserved Stone Age site
  • Around 4000 years ago, the Bronze Age begins
    • People worked the metal (and gold), lived in roundhouses and built tombs called round barrows.
  • The British Iron Age (800 BC to AD 100) marks the beginnings of British history
    • It saw the rise of culture, economy — including the first coins to be minted in Britain — and hill forts, such as Maiden Castle, in Dorset.
    • They spoke a language that was part of the Celtic family; related languages are still spoken today in parts of Wales.

On to [[British Roman history]]

British Roman history

Tags: #lituk

  • The Romans, led by Julius Caesar, failed to conquer Britain in 55 BC.
  • In AD 43, Emperor Claudius led a successful invasion
    • Boudicca, the queen of the Iceni, is killed, in what is now eastern England; her statue stands on Westminster Bridge.
  • Areas of what is now Scotland were never conquered by the Romans, however; a wall was built — beginning in AD 122 — under Emperor Hadrian's reign, to keep the Ancient Britons (including the Picts) out.
    • Later, under Emperor Antoninus Pius, construction began on a turf wall — Antonine Wall — in AD 142, representing the northernmost frontier barrier of the Roman Empire.
  • The Roman Army left Britain in AD 410 to defend other parts of the Empire, never to return.
    • They left behind roads, public buildings, a structure of law, and new plants and animals.
  • In the third and fourth centuries AD, the first Christian communities began to appear.

On to [[British Anglo-Saxon history]]

End of Notes

End of Day 49

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