The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.

This international body he contrasted with imperialism, not only the imperialism of Germany, against which the war was being fought, but also the imperialism, which he considered more benign, of Britain and France.

In February 1918, the third Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist Conference ( representing delegates from Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy ) issued its report, advocating an international labour rights body, an end to secret diplomacy, and other goals.

As the best preserved bog body found in Britain, its discovery caused a media sensation.

The discovery of Lindow Man marked the first well-preserved bog body discovered in Britain ; its condition was comparable to that of Grauballe Man and Tollund Man from Denmark.

Originally used to refer to the presiding officer of a committee or governing body in Great Britain the usage was also applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the Thirteen Colonies ( originally Virginia in 1608 ); in full, the " President of the Council.

On May 15, the Convention instructed Virginia's congressional delegation " to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent States, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the Crown or Parliament of Great Britain ".

It was therefore " disgraceful " for Britain to belong to such a body that engaged in " pure spite for spite's sake against the United Kingdom ": " We were, and are, the victims of our own insincerity.

Later authors sometimes mistakenly or deliberately treated the Grail story as truth — John of Glastonbury, who assembled a chronicle of the history of Glastonbury Abbey around 1350, claims that when Joseph came to Britain, he brought with him a wooden cup used in the Last Supper and two cruets, one holding the blood of Christ, and the other his sweat, washed from his wounded body on the Cross.

After the War, her body was taken back to Britain for a memorial service at Westminster Abbey and then transferred to Norwich, to be laid to rest at Life's Green.

* MSA-Motor Sports Association-Governing body for motor sports in Great Britain

Unlike those in Britain, school uniforms and dress codes are almost universally standard, rather than representing the school or the student body.

This committee matured into the Gemmological Association of Great Britain ( also known as Gem-A ), now an educational charity and accredited awarding body with its courses taught worldwide.

It, like professional racing, is nevertheless run under the auspices of the governing and regulatory body for horse-racing in Great Britain, the British Horseracing Authority.

Despite the events of 1956, Childe retained a love of the Soviet Union, having visited it on a number of occasions prior, and was involved with the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, a satellite body of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

“ In common with other EC countries, on 1st January, 1980, Britain adopted the system of measurement recommended by the International Organisation of Legal Metrology, a body with most major nations among its members.

The stadtholderian regime was pro-British ( the stadtholder being a grandson of king George I of Great Britain ), but his opponents for this reason favored France, and those opponents were strong enough in the States-General of the Netherlands ( the governing body of the Republic whose " first servant " the stadtholder was ) to keep Dutch foreign policy neutral.

The subsequent exhaustion of the Emma ore body led to the recall of the American ambassador to Great Britain, who was a director of the company, and Congressional hearings in Washington.

London Corresponding Society was a moderate-radical body concentrating on reform of the Parliament of Great Britain, founded on 25 January 1792.

Because of the skewed franchise, a large body of voters continued to vote for Unionists, who wished to maintain the Union that joined Britain and Ireland.

* Britain was uneasy at French expansion and had a technical claim on the Congo via Lieutenant Cameron's 1873 expedition from Zanzibar to bring home Livingstone's body, but was reluctant to take on yet another expensive, unproductive colony.

The role of regulatory and professional body was previously carried out by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, who remained as a professional body after handing over the regulatory role to the GPhC in 2010.

In Britain, the Cyclists Touring Club has grown to 70, 000 members ( in 2011 ) and is now the biggest body campaigning for cycling and cyclist's rights in the UK.

* Tobias Mayer presents accurate tables of the Moon's motion to the Board of Longitude in Great Britain.

In addition to his scientific work, he was a social activist who was critical of what he considered to be an unjust social and economic system in 19th-century Britain.

' Euan MacKie would place the origin even later, stating: "... the genesis and modern flowering of archaeoastronomy must surely lie in the work of Alexander Thom in Britain between the 1930s and the 1970s.

She makes no appearance in Bede's work, the Historia Brittonum, the Mabinogion or Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.

It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.

Mainland European sources rarely concern themselves with affairs in Britain, and even less commonly with events in northern Britain, but the life of Saint Cathróe of Metz, a work of hagiography written in Germany at the end of the 10th century, provides plausible details of the saint's early life in north Britain.

Although many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in Western philosophy, the critics in Great Britain at the time did not agree, describing it as " abstract and unintelligible ".

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

John Speed, in his 1611 work History of Great Britain, mentions the possibility that Eleanor had a son named Philip, who died young.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

Georgian-style Governors Hall building at St. Francis Xavier University, completed in 2006The revived Georgian style that emerged in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century is usually referred to as Neo-Georgian ; the work of Edwin Lutyens includes many examples.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

In his work Finn and Hengest, J. R. R. Tolkien argued that Hengist was a historical figure, and that Hengist came to Britain after the events recorded in the Finnesburg Fragment and Beowulf.

In his 17th-century work Monumenta Britannica, English antiquarian John Aubrey ascribes the Uffington White Horse hill figure to Hengist and Horsa, stating that " the White Horse was their Standard at the Conquest of Britain.

On top of all of this, Charles Barkla of Great Britain was awarded this Nobel Prize in 1917 for his experimental work in using X-ray spectroscopy in discovering the characteristic X-ray frequencies emitted by the various elements, especially the metals.

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.

Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work ; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.

The first narrative account of Arthur's life is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin work Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ).

The professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Alvin Plantinga criticises it, and the Emiritus Regius Professor of Divinity Keith Ward suggests that materialism is rare amongst contemporary UK philosophers: " Looking around my philosopher colleagues in Britain, virtually all of whom I know at least from their published work, I would say that very few of them are materialists.

The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.

Gates came in many forms, from the simple stone buttress and timber blocks described by Avery in his work "' Stoning and Fire ' at hill fort entrances of southern Britain ” ( Avery, Michael, World Archeology, Vol.

A who's-who of behind-the-scenes craftsmen, who went on to become Britain ’ s top producers, arrangers, engineers and mixers of the 1970s, chose to work with Nirvana in the late 1960s and in essence cut their studio teeth working with Nirvana.

Turning to literary work as a way to overcome his losses and channel his ambitions, he began writing a series of well-received articles for a prominent New England newspaper justifying and praising the American Revolution and arguing that the separation from Britain was permanent.