British Essays

Features a richly diverse culture and religious practices. This diversity stems from the many immigrants and traders, as well as invading armies, who took part of their own philosophies to India. The landscape and climate throughout the Indian subcontinent ranges extraordinarily from dry deserts to tropical rainforests. India’s diverse culture …

1.0 British Airways: A brief historyBritish Airways can trace its origins back to the birth of civil aviation, the pioneering days following World War I. On 25 August 1919, its forerunner company, Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited (AT&T), launched the world’s first daily international scheduled air service between London and …

Social movements are loosely organised campaign’s in support of a social goal, normally either to achieve or prevent a change in society’s structure or values. Although social movements differ in size, they are all essentially joint. That is, they result from more or less unplanned coming together of people whose …

The following case study aims to understand the pricing policy used by British Gas and the ways in which they arrive at their pricing structure. In order to do this I will look at SWOT and PEST analysis along with Porters Five Forces. We will have to look at each …

Since 1990 the British film scene has changed dramatically with films such as Trainspotting, The full Monty East is East and Dirty Pretty Things hitting the Cinema with critical acclaim due to their intensely hard hitting and realistic tales about actual problems handled in an overwhelmingly authentic and dramatic style. …

British election turnout since 1945 had not dropped below 71. 2% until the Labour Party victory in 2001, where turnout was the lowest since 1918 at 59. 3%. Turnout slowly increased in the 2005 election with 61. 4% and then up again to 65. 1% in 2010. Reasons for the …

As we move into the twenty-first century, the political climate in Britain is changing, and with this change, comes a shift in the decision-making power within the British government. The British executive, is usually thought of in broad terms, as consisting of the Prime Minister, the political members of the …

The British economy before 1873: -Britain was the economic superpower of the world, due to her huge empire and monopoly of industrial global output. -50% of worlds Coal, 50% of worlds Iron & Steel and 50% of all Cotton goods were produced by Britain; not to mention much engineering goods, …

The authors Patrick O’Brian and Paul Kennedy have both composed a debate within three articles examining whether O’Brian’s theories of British imperialism being negative and that “Britain required an empire which neither benefited trade nor defence”1, contrary to Kennedy’s belief that imperialism had many benefits such as trade and access …

The British war effort on the western front, 1916 – 1917 are widely viewed as an awful failure. The efforts and tactics of General Douglas Haig have been the subject of many arguments over the past eighty years. Some regard him as the figure who led Britain to victory, whereas …