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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK) or Britain, [l] is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. [20] [21] It comprises England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
British Indo-Caribbean people. British Indo-Caribbean people are British citizens, whose recent ancestors came from the Caribbean, and who further trace their ancestry back to India and the wider subcontinent. The UK has a large population of Indo-Caribbean people. [2]
19th century [ edit] Prominent African-Caribbean people in Britain during the 19th century include: William Davidson (1781–1820), Cato Street Conspirator. Rev. George Cosens (1805–1881), a Jamaican who became minister of Cradley Heath Baptist Church in 1837. Mary Seacole (1805–1881), a nurse in the Crimean War.
Mainly Goidelic areas. The Britons ( * Pritanī, Latin: Britanni ), also known as Celtic Britons [1] or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient ...
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. English people by period (6 C) British people by century (17 C) Scottish people by period (9 C) Welsh people by period (2 C)
Within Cornwall the total was 73,220 (14% of the population) with 52,793 (9.9%) as Cornish only, 5,185 (1%) as Cornish and British, and 15,242 (2.9%) as Cornish and at least one other identity, with or without British. [54] In Scotland 467 people described themselves as having Cornish national identity. 254 with Cornish identity only, 39 as ...
