Genres originating in or radically developed by British musicians include blues rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, hard rock, punk rock, electric folk, folk punk, acid jazz, trip hop, shoegaze, drum and bass, grime, Britpop and dubstep.

* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present.

British Crime Cinema.

Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema.

British Cinema History.

Women in British Cinema: Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know.

British Historical Cinema.

British Cinema Book 2nd Edition.

British National Cinema.

Britain Can Take it: British Cinema in the Second World War.

All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema.

British Cinema and the Second World War.

British Cinema and Thatcherism.

British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender Genre and the New Look.

Sixties British Cinema.

British Cinema and the Cold War.

British Cinema of the 90s.

Cinema and the State: The Film industry and the British Government, 1927-84.

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994 ) was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

Some atheist organizations, such as the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics and the British National Secular Society, offer certificates of " debaptism ".

In 1882 the Museum was involved in the establishment of the independent Egypt Exploration Fund ( now Society ) the first British body to carry out research in Egypt.

* British Bryological Society, a British society for the study of mosses and liverworts

* Brittle Bone Society, a British medical research charity

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

* British Clavichord Society

Category: Fellows of the British Computer Society

British Fantasy Society Award

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

In the United Kingdom, the Society for Endocrinology and the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes are the main professional organisations.

* British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes

* Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society ( 1971 )

Category: Fellows of the British Computer Society

* an undergraduate degree in psychology permitting registration with the British Psychological Society

* Psychology of Education Section of the British Psychological Society