* 1991 – Steve Cook, British footballer

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

The Cook Islands became a British protectorate in 1888.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

1888 — Cook Islands are proclaimed a British protectorate and a single federal parliament is established.

* 1957 – Richard Cook, British jazz writer ( d. 2007 )

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using laborers from the Cook Islands and Niue, occupied the island from 1886 to 1891.

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755.

His five seasons in Newfoundland produced the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts ; they also gave Cook his mastery of practical surveying, achieved under often adverse conditions, and brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society at a crucial moment both in his career and in the direction of British overseas discovery.

In 1975 the Captain Cook Hotel was built on the former British military base.

* 2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The British first sighted New Caledonia on 4 September 1774, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.

* 1808 – Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur ( d. 1892 )

* 1728 – Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer ( d. 1779 )

* 1778 – British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.

* 1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer ( d. 1779 )

The French explored and settled Polynesia, and the British made three voyages with James Cook to the South Pacific and Australia, Hawaii, and the North American Pacific Northwest.

* Cook, Doris E., Sherlock Holmes & Much More ( The Connecticut Historical Society, 1970 ).

* British Historical Facts 1760 – 1830, by Chris Cook and John Stevenson ( The Macmillan Press 1980 )

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices ( 9th ed .).

* Cook, Hera " Rowbotham, Sheila " pages 1020-1021 from The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Volume 2, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.

* C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts 1830-1900

* Cook, Louise D. Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Atlanta Historical Society, 1976

The programme heavily spoofed the style of topical radio reporters such as John Waite of Face the Facts and Roger Cook, a Radio 4 presenter who went on to television work such as The Cook Report.

British Historical Cinema.

The Vellacott Historical Essay Prize, The Kelvin Science Prize, The Thomas Campion Prize are awarded by Peterhouse to members of the Lower Sixth or year twelve in a British Secondary School.

* The British American Tobacco's Historical Collection in the old Lord Mayor's rooms of the Old Town Hall

* Alexander Morrison, Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India ( Oxford, OUP, 2008 ) ( Oxford Historical Monographs ).

Historical Research Projects is a modern British Israelite publisher that has published In Search of ...

* Historical British performances at Wimbledon

" The Triumph of Class-Conscious Reformism in British Radicalism, 1790-1860 " Historical Journal ( 1983 ) 26 # 4 pp. 969 – 985 in JSTOR

is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ( United Kingdom ), a leading historian of the social and economic history of the British Isles in the medieval period, and author of Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales, 1282-1350 ( Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010 ).

After running various Open Weekends and Steam Galas during the early 1970s ( by permission of British Railways ) the NYMRPS transformed itself into a Charitable Trust ( to ensure the future of the railway ) and became The North York Moors Historical Railway Trust Ltd. Purchase of the line was completed and the necessary Light Railway Order obtained, giving powers to operate the railway.

* A. S. Herbert, Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525 – 1961, London: British and Foreign Bible Society ; New York: American Bible Society, 1968.

According to the Historical Jewish Press, The Palestine Post was established " as part of a Zionist-Jewish initiative ", and " Zionist institutions considered the newspaper one of the most effective means of exerting influence on the British authorities ".

The archive also includes large collections of foreign documents, such as captured German Second World War documents previously held by the Cabinet Office Historical Section, Air Historical Branch and other British government bodies.

* Historical Background Material for the British Period

The creation of a “ British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies ” was first proposed in 1899 in order that Britain could be represented at meetings of European and American academies.

* James Bryce, Two Historical Studies: The Ancient Roman Empire and the British Empire in India ; Diffusion of Roman and English Law Throughout the World ( 1914 )

In 1947 The Annual Register acquired an Advisory Board for the first time consisting of the then editor, Ivison Macadam, the Assistant Editor, Hugh Latimer, and five representatives nominated by: the English Association, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Royal Historical Society.

Historical drama The King's Speech ( 2010 ), featuring Colin Firth as George VI, received widespread acclaim, won four Academy Awards and seven Baftas, and is being hailed as the most successful independent British film ever.

* Historical Maritime Society, a British naval reenactment society

After nomination by the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada approved the designation of David Oppenheimer as a National Historic Person on April 11, 2008.

" Arthur Henderson and the British Political Crisis of 1931 ," Historical Journal ( 1988 ) 31 # 1 pp. 117-139 in JSTOR

Category: Historical Chinatowns in British Columbia

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* Glenn Melancon, " Peaceful Intentions: The First British Trade Commission in China, 1833-5 ,” Historical Research 73 ( 2000 ) password required.

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