* 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 )

In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

As the bow of Guerrier came within range, Goliath opened fire, inflicting severe damage with a double-shotted raking broadside as the British ship turned to port and passed down the unprepared port side of Guerrier, and Foley's Royal Marines and a company of Austrian grenadiers joined the attack, firing their muskets.

During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.

Although briefly outmatched, the British ships were soon joined by Goliath and Theseus.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various British monarchs.

Large numbers of hybrids are available for the garden, since the British A. vulgaris was joined by other European and North American varieties.

The British, French and Dutch joined in the slave trade in subsequent centuries.

British Columbia joined confederation in 1871, followed by Prince Edward Island in 1873.

An attempt was therefore made to send more troops from Tientsin, where British ships had been joined by French, German, Russian, Austrian, Italian and Japanese.

Afghan forces achieved success in the initial days of the war, taking the British and Indians by surprise in two main thrusts as the Afghan regular army was joined by large numbers of Pashtun tribesmen from both sides of the border.

Though large numbers of Irishmen had willingly joined Irish regiments and divisions of the New British Army at the outbreak of war in 1914, the likelihood of enforced conscription created a backlash – particularly as the Government of Ireland Act 1914 ( as previously recommended in March by the Irish Convention ) was controversially linked with a " dual policy " enactment of the Military Service Bill.

Smith and the other lesser producers were joined by Cecil Hepworth in 1899, and in a few years he was turning out 100 films a year, with his company becoming the largest on the British scene.

Robcol was able to buy time, and by late afternoon the two British armoured brigades joined the battle with 4th Armoured Brigade engaging 15th Panzer and 22nd Armoured Brigade 21st Panzer respectively.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

Gibraltar is represented in the European Union, having been the only British Overseas Territory to have joined the European Economic Community under the British Treaty of Accession ( 1973 ).

Tartan had already been adopted for highland regiments in the British army, which poor highlanders joined in large numbers until the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, but by the 19th century it had largely been abandoned by the ordinary people.

Various organisations, including the Independent Labour Party, joined to make the British Labour Party in 1906, with Keir Hardie as its first chairman.

Admiral de Grasse defeated a British fleet at Chesapeake Bay while Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette joined American forces in defeating the British at Yorktown.

In 1856 France joined the Second Opium War on the British side against China ; a missionary's murder was used as a pretext to take interests in southwest Asia in the Treaty of Tientsin.

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

As of spring 2006, James King and Clint Appelhanz had left Origin, and had joined death metal / grindcore group Unmerciful, along with Jeremy Turner and Tony Reust.

After leaving Whiteman, Mercer joined the Benny Goodman band as a vocalist.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

In 1930 Milton Brown joined the group as lead vocalist and brought a sense of innovation and experimentation to the band, now called the Light Crust Doughboys due to radio sponsorship by the makers of Light Crust Flour.

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

On 14 March 2009 the band joined Neil's older son, Liam Finn, on stage for three songs at the Sound Relief concert in Melbourne.

After Peligro joined the band, the extended play In God We Trust, Inc. ( 1981 ) saw them moving toward full on hardcore / thrash.

Frustrated by his band-mates ' limited aspirations, Bowie left the Konrads and joined another band, the King Bees.

Guitarist Kevin Quirion of Order of Ennead joined the band in the summer of 2009.

She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

Louis Clark joined the band as string arranger.

Mik Kaminski, Kelly Groucutt and Hugh McDowell joined the band for the first tour in 1991.

Akre, Friel, and Newcomb later joined Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Rick Friel to form the rock band The Rockfords.

Lee appeared in Broken Social Scene's music video for their 2006 single " Fire Eye'd Boy ", judging the band while they perform various musical tasks, and in 2006, Lee joined Lifeson's supergroup the Big Dirty Band, to provide songs accompanying Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.

In later seasons, harmonica player Charlie McCoy joined the cast and eventually formed the Hee Haw Band, which became the house band for the rest of the series ' run.

Before he joined the Ramones, he was the singer in a band called Sniper.

In 1972 Hyman joined the glam punk band, Sniper.

At age twelve, Moon joined his local Sea Cadet Corps band as a bugle player but traded his position to be a drummer.

During this time, Moon joined his first serious band, The Escorts.

During the recording process he met piano player Jimmie Bones who joined the band soon after.

In 1966, Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band, The Yardbirds, to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith.

Wanting to progress further, in 1965 he joined The Rockin ' Vickers who signed a deal with CBS, released three singles and toured Europe, reportedly being the first British band to visit Yugoslavia.

After meeting Simon King in a Chelsea shopping centre in 1969, he joined the band Opal Butterfly, but the group soon folded, having previously failed to raise enough interest with their preceding CBS singles.

In 1971, Lemmy joined the space rock band, Hawkwind, who were based in Ladbroke Grove, London, as a bassist and vocalist.