The Great Britain team won the last MacRobertson International Croquet Shield tournament, which is the major international test tour trophy in association croquet.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

From fragmentary historical sources it seems he reached the far north of Britain and won a great battle in early summer before returning south to York.

Shortly after VE Day, the Labour Party won the general election in Britain.

The Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace was founded in 1908 to govern international competitions, and the first European championships were won by Great Britain in 1910.

On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.

His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port – at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain – but at the time the public were disappointed that he had lost more ships ( mainly due to dangerous ammunition-handling procedures on British battlecruisers ) and had not won a victory as crushing as Trafalgar.

Hulme won with it in Sweden and Revson took the only Grand Prix wins of his career in Britain and Canada.

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

Teletubbies, particularly notable for its high production values, rapidly became a critical and commercial success in Britain and abroad and won a BAFTA in 1998.

The war had been won by Britain and its allies, but at a terrible human and financial cost, creating a sentiment that wars should never be fought again.

These conditions included the return of the sugar islands ( but Britain retained Dominica ); trading stations in West Africa ( won by Boscawen ); Pondicherry, ( France's Indian colony ); and fishing rights in Newfoundland.

Powell desperately wanted to go to the Far East to help the fight against Japan because " the war in Europe is won now, and I want to see the Union Flag back in Singapore " before, Powell thought, the Americans beat Britain to it.

After the ' Rivers of Blood ' speech, however, Powell was transformed into a national public figure and won huge support across Britain.

In 1993, Adnams Extra won the Champion Beer of Britain ( CBOB )-an award presented by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) at the annual Great British Beer Festival.

When Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, won the 1979 general election defeating the incumbent Labour Party led by James Callaghan, Britain had endured several years of severe inflation, which was rarely below 10 % and by the time of the election in May 1979 stood at 10. 3 %.

In the December 1918 general election, a large majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won by Sinn Féin, with 73 of 105 constituencies returning Sinn Féin members.

His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award ( 1984 ) and Boyd McCandless Award ( 1986 ) from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award ( 1993 ) from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize ( 2004 ) from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the George Miller Prize ( 2010 ) from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

* Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville is set in an alternate history in which France won the Napoleonic War, invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family.

In 1973, British Prime Minister Edward Heath bought a Steinway piano with the £ 450 he had won in the Charlemagne Prize for leading Britain into the European Economic Community.

Osvaldo César Ardiles ( born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province ), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team.

Brzezinski's plan for doing further studies in Great Britain in preparation for a diplomatic career in Canada fell through, principally because he was ruled ineligible for a scholarship he had won that was open to British subjects.

The reference to the extension of the British Empire's boundaries may reflect the Boer War, recently won at the time of writing, in which Britain gained further territory, endowed with considerable mineral wealth.

In Britain during the 1980s, the entrist Militant tendency won three members of parliament and effective control of Liverpool City Council while in the Labour Party.

J. P. Harris states that most Luftwaffe leaders from Goering through the general staff believed as did their counterparts in Britain and the United States that strategic bombing was the chief mission of the air force and that given such a role, the Luftwaffe would win the next war and that:

Geikie, a Scottish-born Canadian, reflected the Anglocentric attitude that would be prevalent in Canada for the next hundred years when he referred to the language as " a corrupt dialect ", in comparison to what he considered the proper English spoken by immigrants from Britain.

Over the next forty-five years the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain.

Over the next ten years, relations between the Afghan ruler and Britain deteriorated steadily.

The very next day, Britain declared war on Germany, greatly unimpressing the increasingly cynical Gardner.

Its transformation into a rich leader of modern industry came suddenly and unexpectedly in the next 150 years, following its union with Britain in 1707 and its integration with the advanced English and imperial economies.

Emigration continued into the next century ; over half a million Irish went to Britain in World War II to work in industry and serve in the British armed forces.

In 1912 the U. S. arranged a 40-year international loan of $ 1. 7 million, against which Liberia had to agree to four Western powers ( America, Britain, France and Germany ) controlling Liberian Government revenues for the next 14 years, until 1926.

Overseas militias were first raised in Jamestown, Virginia, and in Bermuda, where the Bermuda Militia followed a similar trajectory over the next two centuries to that in Britain.

On 22 August, one day after the talks broke down with France and Britain, Moscow revealed that Ribbentrop would visit Stalin the next day.

The next novels featuring Hambledon were lighter-toned, despite occurring either in Nazi Germany or Britain during the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ).

** Spain demands that the United Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar ; Britain refuses the next day.

On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?

By far, the largest proportion of respondents in the three countries ( 74 % in Canada, 67 % in Britain and 63 % in the United States ) said that conversations with friends were “ very useful ” or “ moderately useful .” The next reputable source was the media ( television, books, movies, magazines ), mentioned by three-in-five Britons ( 65 %) and Canadians ( 62 %) and more than half of Americans ( 54 %) as useful.

However, in the next ten years, Edward's affability and popularity, as well as his use of family connections, assisted Britain in building European alliances.

Over the next forty-five years, the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain.

The next day Nicol, after playing a number of concerts in Sydney and Adelaide, giving interviews and signing autographs was escorted to the airport by Brian Epstein and flew home to Britain.

According to hagiographies written some centuries later, Illtud and his pupils David, Gildas, Paul Aurelian, Samson and Deiniol from the next generation, were leading figures in sixth-century Britain.

The grammar was quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century-Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin-and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanus Maurus of Fulda and Servatus Lupus of Ferrières.

" In late 1986 Sting visited Crisp in his apartment and was told over dinner – and the next three days – what life had been like for a homosexual man in the largely homophobic Great Britain of the 1920s to the 1960s.

" The Dutch regained the town in 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War but it was returned to Great Britain the next year under the Treaty of Westminster.

For example, although there would be the same Y chromosome in the princes expected ( as of 2010 ) to be the next two Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, son of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and HRH Prince William, son of HRH Princess of Wales Diana Spencer ), that DNA would be inherited from the father of the current ( as of 2010 ) Prince of Wales ( HRH Prince Charles ), and not from the Queen or the prior Kings.

In 671, at the Battle of Two Rivers, he put down an opportunistic rebellion by the Picts, which resulted in the Northumbrian control of the northern Britain for the next fourteen years, and which created a new sub-kingdom in the north called Lothian.

Britain acquired Kowloon ( next to Hong Kong ).