1. Know your England !
A. van der Veen

2. The United Kingdom
Scotland
Wales
England
Northern Ireland

3. The flag: the Union Jack
The Union Jack is a combination of the flags
of the countries that form the United Kingdom.
Blue field with red cross : St. George England
Edged in white : St. Patrick Ireland
Diagonal white cross St. Andrew Scotland
The Welsh Dragon will always be a thing on its own.

4. The Commonwealth Cyprus,Malta, Kenya,India, Zimbabwe,Canada,Australia,
Association of 51 states, once part of the British Empire
Cyprus,Malta, Kenya,India,
Zimbabwe,Canada,Australia,
New Zealand, Pakistan , Gibraltar,
Channel Islands ,Falklands,
Hong Kong a.o.

5. Houses of Parliament Whitehall = the government/ Parliament
The former Palace of Westminster,
Now : The Houses of Parliament
Located near Whitehall, so ..
Whitehall
= the government/
Parliament

6. Big Ben Big Ben is the name of the clock.
Named after Sir Benjamin Hall, a small man.

7. Whitehall
The Cenotaph
No. 10 Downingstreet
Horse Guards

8. House of Commons Government Party faces the Opposition
Rebuilt after WW II
650 MPs
(Members of Parliament )
Less Seats +/- 400
Government Party
faces the Opposition
Watch the lines on the floor:
The width of 2 swords!
Fighting should be done with words!!
Now: Hung Parliament
No party with an absolute majority
in the House.

9. Political Parties Ed Milliband David Cameron Nick Clegg
Labour Party :
Leader of the Opposition !!
Leader of the Shadow Cabinet
Ed Milliband
Conservatives:
David Cameron
Tory Party
Liberal Democrats:
Nick Clegg
NEW!! not since WWII :
A COALITION GOVERNMENT

10. The system “order! Order please ! “
Frontbenchers
Backbenchers
Government parties
The Opposition :
Shadow Cabinet

11. Electoral system ‘winner takes all’ : constituencies
MPs represent their constituencies
Holland: equal representation.
‘One man, one vote ‘
Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales have their own Parliaments.

12. House of Lords The chairman sits on the woolsack :
gift of Australia and New Zealand

13. The Lords The Lords Temporal ‘Hereditary Peers’
The Lords Spiritual (church)
350 Life Peers: appointed by her Majesty’s
government as a reward for
services rendered.

14. The Monarchy Prince Her Royal Highness Phillip Queen Elizabeth II
Consort
Her Royal Highness
Queen Elizabeth II
Charles, Prince of Wales
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

15. The Diana legacy The future King and Queen? William and Kate Middleton
April 2011
Royal
Wedding!!!
William
‘ the heir’
Harry
‘ the spare’

16. Church of England Henry VIII: The Protector of the Faith 1509-1547
1534 Founded his own Church of England and
became Head of The Church
Divorced, beheaded, died,
Divorced, beheaded, survived…

17. His heirs ………….. Edward VI , son of Henry VIII
and Jane Seymour
Wife no. 3
Church of England
Mary ( nicknamed Bloody Mary)
Daughter of Henry VIII and
Catherine of Aragon
Wife no. 1
Roman Catholic

18. Elizabeth I The Virgin Queen
Daughter of Henry VIII
And Anne Boleyn
Wife no. 2
Because of her he founded the Church of England.
Elizabeth gave Freedom of Religion
MONARCH HEAD OF STATE…..
AND HEAD OF CHURCH !!!

19. 2010 Meeting of Anglican and Roman Catholic Heads of Church
Pope Benedict

20. Confrontation
Protestant
And Roman Catholic
Church
Open invitation to orthodox
Anglican priests to come back into
the Roman Catholic motherchurch!!
Beatification of John Newman

21. Schoolsystem Public schools : expensive private schools
e.g. Eton near Windsor
“the old school tie “

22. Schoolsystem Boarding school : all public schools are boarding schools
Grammar schools :GCSE exams
sometimes schooluniforms
schooldinners

23. Universities: Bachelor degree Master degree
New universities
the old ones:
Cambridge
Oxford

24. To be continued…..