An image of the Jew as a diabolical figure who hated Christ started to become widespread, and antisemitic myths such as the Wandering Jew and ritual murders originated and spread throughout England, as well as Scotland and Wales.

; 1700: Sir Solomon de Medina is knighted by William II, making him the first Jew in England to receive that honour.

Barnett was the eldest son of a Prussian Jew named Bernhard Beer, who changed his surname on settling in England as a jeweller.

When America showed herself decidedly against any kind of interference in Russia, the idea soon gained wide credence that President Woodrow Wilson was a Jew, while Mr Lloyd George was referred to as a Jew whenever a cable from England appeared to show him as being lukewarm in support of the anti-Bolsheviks.

He was descended from Spanish Jew Fernando Mendes, who accompanied Catherine of Braganza to England in 1662.

Gentile-Jewish relations in England were disturbed under King Stephen, who burned down the house of a Jew in Oxford ( some accounts say with a Jew in it ) because he refused to pay a contribution to the king's expenses.

In December 2005, a poll by The Jewish Chronicle of its subscribers, in which 2, 000 readers made their nominations, voted Jacobs the ' greatest British Jew ' in the community's 350-year history in England.

He battled on many fronts at Christ's Hospital: he was a Jew at a Church of England establishment ; he was from a poor family ; he was slight of stature ; he was utterly indifferent to sport ; he adopted a Marxist stance, hanging the Red Flag from a school window to celebrate the Labour victory in 1945.

* History of the Jews in England -- The Jew Bill of 1753

* History of the Jews in England -- The Jew Bill of 1753

Benjamin Disraeli, born a Jew though baptised aged 12 into the Church of England, was a member of parliament from 1837, served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1858 and 1867-1868 Conservative governments.

Christian-Jewish relations in England were disturbed under King Stephen who burned down the house of a Jew in Oxford ( some accounts say with the owner in it ) because he refused to pay a contribution to the king's expenses.

Erica Duggan's father was a German Jew who fled the country during the Holocaust ; she herself left South Africa for England because of apartheid.

Thus, both in England and in France the kings demanded to be compensated for every Jew converted.

* L. Wolf, The First English Jew, in Transactions of the Historical Society of England, ii. 14-16 ;

At the beginning of the 17th century Pacheco in the Netherlands ; Shumel al-Farrashi at the same place in 1610 ; after 1675 Joseph Toledani, who, as stated above, concluded peace with Holland ; his son Hayyim in England in 1750 ; a Jew in Denmark.

* Where a Jew advises the Crown on the appointment to offices of the Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland

However, both by his own choice and by the sentiments of his audiences in England, Braham ’ s Jewishness remained a prominent feature of his career until his marriage in 1816, and as the most famous English Jew of this period he became a significant incarnation of ' the Jew ' in the British consciousness.

A Jew, he fled Germany in 1935, leaving behind all his possessions, and settled in England.

A Swiss Jew, he arrived in England at the age of 12, becoming involved in the Independent Labour Party as a young man.

Former NSA employee Margaret Newsham claims that she worked on the configuration and installation of software that makes up the ECHELON system while employed at Lockheed Martin, for whom she worked from 1974 to 1984 in Sunnyvale, California, US, and in Menwith Hill, England, UK.

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

* 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from ( Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom ) in 37 minutes.

* 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.

In A Social History of Truth ( 1994 ), for example, Steven Shapin makes the largely sociological argument that, in 17th-century England, the mode of sociability known as civility became the primary discourse of truth ; for a statement to have the potential to be considered true, it had to be expressed according to the rules of civil society.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the highest court in the land for both criminal and civil cases in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and any decision it makes is binding on every other court in the hierarchy.

* September 7 – The passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

* November – The new & largest passenger liner RMS Mauretania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

* October 15 – Led Zeppelin makes their first live performance, at Surrey University in England

* The Act of Uniformity 1662 in England and Wales makes mandatory the use of the Book of Common Prayer.

* Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England.

* September 29 – Stanley Matthews makes his England debut, beginning a record 23-year international career.

* Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell court musician.

* June – At Jamestown, John Rolfe makes the first shipment of West Indian tobacco grown in Virginia to England.

A contract with the inhabitants accepting James I of England as their sovereign makes it part of the English colonial empire.

* March 4 – King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.

* John of Gaunt, the uncle of Richard II of England, makes peace with Castile and gives up his claim to the Castilian throne by allowing his daughter Katherine of Lancaster to marry Prince Henry, the eldest son of John I of Castile.

* April 2 – April 3 – Peace of Cateau Cambrésis: France makes peace with England and Spain, ending the Italian War of 1551 – 1559.

* Cambro-Norman Knight, and vassal of Henry II of England, Richard fitzGilbert de Clare makes an alliance with exiled Irish chief Dermot MacMurrough, to help him regain the throne of Leinster.

That he was also a Catholic priest, in a turbulent time for the Church in England, makes that contribution all the more interesting.

Slough is home to the Slough Trading Estate, which, coupled with extensive transport links, makes it an important business centre in South East England.

The purchase of the canal would secure control of India, but Michael Probert, head of the Bank of England, makes it clear to Disraeli that he is vehemently opposed to any such plan.

Plays, as breeding grounds of idleness, were subject to attack by all levels of authority in the 1600s ; the play ’ s celebration of pleasure and idleness in a subjugated Egypt makes it plausible to draw parallels between Egypt and the heavily censored theatre culture in England.

Similarly, the Historia Norwegiæ makes him flee directly to England, where he was received by his half-brother Haakon, baptised and given charge of Northumbria by Æthelstan.

Historical raids and alien contacts also feature in several stories, such as the Jon Pertwee episode The Time Warrior, in which a lone alien makes a forced landing in mediaeval England, the Tom Baker episode Pyramids of Mars ( in which the culture of ancient Egypt is shown to have been the result of the infuence of visiting aliens ), and the Peter Davison episode The Visitation in which crashed alien criminals are revealed to be indirectly responsible for the Great Fire of London.