England is one of the United Kingdom's Home Nations, meaning that it is permitted by FIFA to maintain its own national side.

Over the next forty years, England played exclusively with the other three Home Nations — Scotland, Wales and Ireland — in the British Home Championship.

They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the Home Nations on a tour of Central Europe in 1908.

After Wales won the Triple Crown in the 1905 Home Nations Championship the match was dubbed the ' Game of the Century ' by the press.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

The spread of rugby union grew from the Home Nations of Great Britain and Ireland, and was absorbed by many of the countries associated with the British Empire.

By 1881 both Ireland and Wales had representative teams, and in 1883 the first international competition, the Home Nations Championship had begun.

The Six Nations is the successor to the Home Nations Championship ( 1883 – 1909 and 1932 – 39 ) and the Five Nations Championship ( 1910 – 31 and 1947 – 99 ).

Victory by any Home Nation over the other three Home Nations is a ' Triple Crown '.

The Triple Crown honour has long been a feature of the tournament, dating back to the original Home Nations Championship, but the physical Triple Crown Trophy has been awarded only since 2006.

The four Home Nations of the United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – also send separate teams.

As a result, Britain pooled its energy into winning over Arab opinions by abandoning the Balfour Declaration and the terms of the League of Nations mandate which had been entrusted to it in order to create a " Jewish National Home ".

The Home Nations, in a period of self-imposed exile from FIFA, also refused to participate.

England currently has no agreed national anthem, with " God Save the Queen ", the national anthem of the United Kingdom, often being used in sporting events in which England competes separately from the other Home Nations.

This World Cup saw the entry and qualification of the Soviet Union for the first time, and the qualification of all the United Kingdom's Home Nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

There are currently 9 government office regions in England and none in the other Home Nations.

Nations such as Japan use their SAM equipped vessels to create an outer air defense perimeter in the defense of its Home islands, and the United States also uses its Aegis equipped ships as part of its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System in the defense of the Continental United States.

The match itself raised £ 30, 000 for the four Home Nations Football Associations, and seen as the eleven British players received £ 14 each, Matthews questioned where exactly this money ended up – he doubted that much of it ended up as funding for grass-roots football.

Most notably, in 1978 he was captain of the first All Blacks side to complete a Grand Slam over the four Home Nations sides.

He reviewed Curran's Speeches, Carlyle's Life of Cromwell, a pamphlet by Isaac Butt on The Protection of Home Industry, The Age of Pitt and Fox, and later on The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland, edited by Denis Florence MacCarthy ( 4 April 1846 ); The Industrial History of Free Nations, by Torrens McCullagh, and Father Meehan's The Confederation of Kilkenny ( 8 August 1846 ).

At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.

He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).

* British Home Championship ( 8, 2 shared ): 1964 ( shared ), 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 ( shared ), 1971 and 1972

England qualified for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil by winning the 1950 British Home Championship.

Winterbottom again led England to successful qualification for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland by winning the 1953 – 1954 British Home Championship.

England achieved some success under Winterbottom in the British Home Championship.

It was decided to use the 1949-1950 British Home Championship as a qualifying group, with the top two teams qualifying.

Between 1937 and 1957 he won 54 caps for England, playing in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and 1954, and winning nine British Home Championship titles.

South Africa toured both nations in 1921 but there was never any formal competition between these teams, unlike the Home Nations ( now known as the Six Nations Championship ) in the Northern Hemisphere and the three nations only met sporadically.

Home Nations Championship

* 21st Home Nations Championship series is won by Scotland

Home Nations Championship

* 20th Home Nations Championship series is won by Wales

Home Nations Championship

* 19th Home Nations Championship series is won by Scotland

Home Nations Championship

* 18th Home Nations Championship series is won by Wales

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

After the fall of the Conservative government to Labour in 1997, she served as Shadow Health Secretary between 1998 and 1999 and later as Shadow Home Secretary between 1999 and 2001 under William Hague.

It conscripted males between the ages of 16 to 60 years who were not already serving in some military unit as part of a German Home Guard.

* RCA / Columbia Pictures Home Video, joint venture between RCA and Columbia Pictures

It has been suggested that with their emphasis on the younger, attractive and charismatic characters, Neighbours and Home and Away have found success in the middle ground between glamorous, fantastic US soaps with their wealthy but tragic heroes and the more grim, naturalistic UK soap operas populated by older, unglamorous characters.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released all 9 seasons of Seinfeld on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4 between 2004 and 2007.

* Space Quest IV. 5: Roger Wilco And The Voyage Home set between the fourth and fifth game.

Perplexed by the creature, Home kept changing his mind about its classification, first thinking it was a kind of fish, then thinking it might have some kind of affinity with the duck-billed platypus ( only recently known to science ); finally in 1819 he reasoned it might be a kind of intermediate form between salamanders and lizards, which led him to propose naming it Proteo-Saurus.

* Home experiment based on index matching between glass and paint thinner

At each Swing Station riders would exchange their tired mounts for fresh ones, while Home Stations provided room and board for the riders between runs.

On 3 July 1996 it was announced in the House of Commons that the Stone would be returned to Scotland, and on 15 November 1996, after a handover ceremony at the border between representatives of the Home Office and of the Scottish Office, it was transported to Edinburgh Castle, arriving on 30 November 1996, where it remains along with the crown jewels of Scotland ( the Honours of Scotland ) in the Crown Room.

Home ranges of male leopards vary between and, and of females between.

At world equilibrium, Pw, Home produced only S amount of the good, but had a demand of D. The difference between S and D, SD was filled by importing from abroad.

A series of similar clashes occurred between troops and demonstrators, and in March 1962 the government recognized the army's growing domestic importance by transferring control of the military to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

From a materialist " Home Team " perspective, ideas are also social ( rather than purely biological ), and formed and transmitted and modified through the interactions between social organisms and their social and physical environments.

A dispute over the amount to be paid to Collings, Chamberlain's Parliamentary Secretary, worsened relations between Gladstone and Chamberlain, although the latter still hoped that he could alter or block Gladstone's Home Rule proposal in Cabinet, so that his programme of Radicalism could be given more attention.

It was a co-production between British regional ITV franchise holder Television South ( TVS ), CBC Television, United States pay-television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates ( later Jim Henson Productions ), the show was filmed on a Toronto sound stage, ( later at Elstree Studios, London ).

Following a Commons Home Affairs Committee meeting in which talks were held between campaigners, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office on 19 May, Gordon Brown announced to the House of Commons on 20 May that the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith would make a statement on the issue the following day.

Falmouth was the site of a small skirmish on September 18, 1862, between twenty-eight Confederates and eleven Home Guardsmen.

Home players were introduced in 1966 that allowed consumers to share tapes between their homes and portable systems.