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In the United Kingdom, military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, and the second from 1939 to...

declaration in January 1941, the term Great Britain was extended to include the Isle of Man. Despite the end of the war in September 1945, the Labour government...

terms: The British Isles is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Continental Europe. It includes Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Shetland...

to Britain to sell the items.[citation needed] The Isle of Man was involved in the transatlantic African slave trade. Goods from the slave trade were bought...

the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a West Indian British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the...

and settled in many areas, especially in eastern Britain and Ireland, the islands north and west of Scotland and the Isle of Man. During the Early Medieval...

Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is a type of conscription of men into a military force, especially a naval force, via intimidation...

Retrieved 2016-03-04. "Children and rights in Ireland". Citizensinformation.ie. Retrieved 2013-08-18. "Isle of Man Government - Body piercing". gov.im. "Piercing...

comedor.[citation needed] In the 1990s, the Gibraltarian man-of-letters Mario Arroyo published Profiles (1994), a series of bilingual meditations on love...

during the Second World War when conscription was brought in during the war and stayed until 1960. At the beginning of the 18th century, the standing...

banned in Great Britain since the Dunblane school massacre in 1996. Handguns are permitted in Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man which...

fight conscription. The stark differences between the values of French and English Canada popularized the expression the "Two Solitudes". In the wake of the...

The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has...

his first chance to record in 1959 with Decca Records. He had been spotted when he won a talent contest in the Isle of Man the previous summer. Dorsey's...

show the men in families how important they are to others. The Isle of Man celebrated its inaugural celebration in 2012 at the Isle of Man College of Higher...

reorganised—the war marked the founding of the Royal Air Force. The highly controversial introduction, in January 1916, of conscription for the first time in British...

Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world. Geopolitically, the island...

of Oslac of the Isle of Wight, Chief Butler of England. Asser, in his Vita Ælfredi asserts that this shows his lineage from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight...

in France. The soldiers of the corps were mostly volunteers, as conscription was not implemented until the end of the war (see Conscription Crisis of...

parents would automatically be French citizens and liable to conscription for military service. The British ambassador, Lord Lyons, had a maternity ward set...