"Leeds Rhinos The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1870, they compete in the European Super League, the top-level European rugby league club competition, and have won the competition a record eight times since its inception in 1996. They play their home matches at Headingley Rugby Stadium, and are the 2017 Super League champions. The club was known simply as Leeds until the end of the 1996 season. They are also historically known as the Loiners, referring to the demonym for a native of Leeds. In 1895, Leeds was one of"
"The Lonely Londoners The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon. Its publication was one of the first to focus on poor, working-class blacks following the enactment of the British Nationality Act 1948 alongside George Lamming's ""The Emigrants"" (1954). The book details the life of West Indians in post-World War II London, a city the immigrants consider the ""centre of the world."" Covering a period of roughly three years, ""The Lonely Londoners"" has no plot in the usual sense of the term. Rather, the novel follows a limited number of characters of the ""Windrush generation"", all"
"travel writer Fynes Moryson stated in his ""Itinerary"" that ""Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bells, are in reproach called Cockneys."" The same year, John Minsheu included the term in this newly restricted sense in his dictionary ""Ductor in Linguas"". The use of the term to describe all Londoners generally, however, survived into the 19th century before becoming restricted to the working class and their particular accent. The term is now used loosely to describe all East Londoners, although some distinguish the areas (such as Canning Town) that were added to London in 1964. The region in which"
"the City are eligible to stand for election. The current Alderman is Roger Gifford and the current Common Councilmen are: Mark Boleat, Michael Snyder and Alex Barr. Cordwainer (ward) Cordwainer is a small, almost rectangular-shaped ward in the City of London. It is named after the cordwainers, the professional shoemakers who historically lived and worked in this particular area of London; there is a Livery Company for the trade — the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. The ward is sometimes referred to as the ""Cordwainers' ward"". It is bounded to the north by Poultry and Cheapside (the boundary with Cheap ward);"
"Lindinis Lindinis or Lendiniae was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Ilchester, located in the English county of Somerset in the United Kingdom. The name ""Lindinis"" appears in the 7th-century ""Ravenna Cosmography"". The alternative ""*Lendiniae"" is derived from two inscribed construction stones from Hadrian's Wall which refer to a detachment from the ""Lendinienses"" tribe of the Durotriges"" (). The inscriptions seem to imply that the town was a separate tribal capital from the known one at Dorchester (""Durnovaria""). It appears to be a Latinization of the Brittonic for ""swampy lake"". There were"
"km). Notable Scouse speakers include John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, while Mancunians include Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis. The Cockney accent is traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. Michael Caine is a notable exponent, as is Eliza Doolittle in ""Pygmalion"" (""My Fair Lady""), whose dialect includes words that are common among working-class Londoners, such as ain't: ""I ain't done nothing wrong"", said Doolittle. Received Pronunciation is the accent of standard English in the UK, with speakers including the British Royal Family. Brummie is the dialect of natives of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England: notable Brummies"
"Cordwainer (ward) Cordwainer is a small, almost rectangular-shaped ward in the City of London. It is named after the cordwainers, the professional shoemakers who historically lived and worked in this particular area of London; there is a Livery Company for the trade — the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. The ward is sometimes referred to as the ""Cordwainers' ward"". It is bounded to the north by Poultry and Cheapside (the boundary with Cheap ward); to the west by the eponymous Bread Street and the ward of the same name; to the south by Cannon Street (and Vintry and Dowgate wards); and"
"""number"", or of course a ""chick"" or ""white pussy"". A remarkable passage within the novel about a typical London summer is written in the stream-of-consciousness mode, linking up Selvon with the modernist movement. Other novels with the theme of the immigrant experience among Caribbeans in London: All page references are to the 2006 Penguin ""Modern Classics"" edition. The Lonely Londoners The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon. Its publication was one of the first to focus on poor, working-class blacks following the enactment of the British Nationality Act 1948 alongside George Lamming's ""The Emigrants"" (1954)."
"Sloane Ranger In the United Kingdom, a Sloanie (or occasionally a Sloane Ranger) is a stereotypical young upper-middle or upper class person who pursues a distinctive fashionable lifestyle. The term is a portmanteau of ""Sloane Square"", a location in Chelsea, London famed for the wealth of residents and frequenters, and the television character ""The Lone Ranger"". The term dates from 1975, when aspiring writer Peter York had conversations with Ann Barr (then features editor of UK magazine ""Harpers & Queen"") about what had become a recognisable ""tribe"" of young people living in Chelsea and parts of Kensington. This led to"
"historically associated with Liverpool such as Prescot, Whiston and Rainhill in Merseyside and Widnes, Runcorn and Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. Variations within the accent and dialect are noted, along with popular colloquialisms, that show a growing deviation from the historical Lancashire dialect and a growth in the influence of the accent in the wider area. Inhabitants of Liverpool can be referred to as Liverpudlians, Liverpolitans or Wackers but are more often described by the colloquialism ""Scousers"". The word """" is a shortened form of ""lobscouse"", whose origin is uncertain. It is related to the Norwegian ""lapskaus"", Swedish ""lapskojs"" and Danish"
"Lennon's father's family were the descendants of Irish migrants who came to Liverpool in the 19th century. Liverpool's Irish heritage is further highlighted by it being the only English city to have a significant Orange Order membership, it is also has a large catholic majority and is the most catholic city in the U.K. The Irish have also come to be as much of a staple of Merseyside in general, as of Liverpool itself. Many of the towns which surround the city in the county, such as Crosby, Widnes, Birkenhead, Newton-le-Willows, Wallasey, Bootle and Moreton, have many ethnic Irish people,"
"of Greater London, and who are mentioned by Julius Caesar in his account of his expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC. In a later account of these expeditions by Orosius, they are referred to as ""civitas Trinovantum"", ""the nation of the Trinovantes"", with ""Trinovantum"" in this case being in the genitive plural. However, as ""civitas"" can also mean ""city"" and Latin neuter nouns often end in ""-um"" in the nominative singular, this phrase was misinterpreted by Geoffrey or his sources as ""the city Trinovantum"". In Roman times the city was known by the name Londinium, which appears to"
"Cockney The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations. Originally a pejorative term applied to all city-dwellers, it was gradually restricted to Londoners, and particularly to ""Bow-bell Cockneys"": those born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in the Cheapside district of the City of London. It eventually came to be used to refer to those in London's East End, or to all working-class Londoners generally. Linguistically, cockney English refers to the accent or dialect of English traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. In the 1980s, some features of cockney became more frequent in"
"fifth century into the early seventh. An inhabitant of Leeds is locally known as a ""Loiner"", possibly derived from Loidis. There is no dependable reference to any place that might be associated with Leeds, before Bede's mention in circa 730 AD; and that was to a region rather than a village or town; thus little is known of any Roman, British or Anglo-Saxon predecessors to Leeds. As well as scattered Bronze Age objects throughout the Leeds area, there were, according to 19th-century records, two Bronze Age barrows on Woodhouse Moor. In the pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age, the vicinity of"
"although others such as Mommsen and Ussher instead read ""vel"" as the Latin for ""or""—""Pensa or Coyt""—and tentatively associate it with Isca at present-day Exeter. Lindinis Lindinis or Lendiniae was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Ilchester, located in the English county of Somerset in the United Kingdom. The name ""Lindinis"" appears in the 7th-century ""Ravenna Cosmography"". The alternative ""*Lendiniae"" is derived from two inscribed construction stones from Hadrian's Wall which refer to a detachment from the ""Lendinienses"" tribe of the Durotriges"" (). The inscriptions seem to imply that the town was"
"school, which provided free education to working class children, lived in Portsmouth and set up the country's first ragged school in the city. Peter Sellers, comedian, actor, and performer, was born in Southsea, and Arnold Schwarzenegger lived and trained in Portsmouth for a short time. Several other professional actors have also been born, or lived, in the city, including; ""EastEnders"" actress Emma Barton, and Bollywood actress Geeta Basra, who originally hails from Portsmouth. Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes was born and lived in Portsmouth for a time. Helen Duncan, the last person to be imprisoned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act in the"
"their own traditions, they came to Ireland from Armorica (Brittany). They landed in the southeast of the country and took the southeastern quarter from the Érainn. The modern name of this province, Leinster (Irish: Laighin), preserves the memory of this Laginian conquest, although in ancient times it was much smaller than the modern province. Before the Goidelic invasion, the River Liffey marked the boundary between Ulster and Leinster. The Domnainn were clearly a branch of the Dumnonii, a Celtic people identified by Classical authors as inhabiting Dumnonia (the English counties of Cornwall and Devon, to which they gave their name)."
"most famous for playing ""Lou Carpenter"" in the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"", was born in Chandler's Ford and grew up in Fareham. Robert Goddard (1954 - ), English novelist, author of 26 novels, born and educated in Fareham. Steve Claridge (1966 - ), English football pundit, manager and former player grew up in Titchfield and started his career at Fareham Town. Andy Vernon (1986 - ), British long-distance runner was born in Fareham, and attended Cams Hill School. Anjali Thakker (1993 - ), New Zealand international ice and inline hockey player. Lived in Fareham while playing for the Solent Lizards"
"Sam Selvon Samuel ""Sam"" Selvon (20 May 1923 – 16 April 1994) was a Trinidad-born writer. His 1956 novel ""The Lonely Londoners"" is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or ""nation language"", for narrative as well as dialogue. Samuel Dickson Selvon was born in San Fernando in the south of Trinidad, and is the sixth of seven children. His parents were Indian: his father was a first-generation Christian immigrant from Madras and his mother was a Christian Anglo-Indian. His maternal grandfather was Scottish and his maternal grandmother was Indian. He was educated at Naparima College, San Fernando, before leaving"
"Moonrakers Moonrakers is the colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, a county in the West Country of England. This name refers to a folk story set in the time when smuggling was a significant industry in rural England, with Wiltshire lying on the smugglers' secret routes between the south coast and customers in the centre of the country. The story goes that some local people had hidden contraband barrels of French brandy from customs officers in a village pond. While trying to retrieve it at night, they were caught by the revenue men, but explained themselves by pointing to the"
"Lismore, Ireland. The ancestors of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Foley's, came from here - probably distant relatives. Thomas Gallwey, whose family came from Killarney, Ireland, died 21 December 1858, aged 68 years. Captain, Royal Navy, and for 24 years the British Consul at Naples. Isabella Hayes, née Barnard, died 12 June 1832, aged 54 years. The daughter of Dr. Henry Barnard of Banbrook, Coleraine, Ireland and the wife of Henry Horace Hayes, clerk, of Northstoke, Somerset. William John Johnston, died 25 February 1837, aged 26 years, from Magheramena, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Letitia Macartney, died 19 September 1854, from cholera, at"
"established in 1752 at the time of the enclosures. They are at the end of Little London Lane - one of a number of localities carrying this name in England. The origins of the name are not believed to be directly linked with ""London"" but rather a corruption of the Old English ""utlenden"". Utlenden (outsiders) were Welsh drovers who set up camps on waste land en route to markets in London. Edward Cave, the 18th century publisher was born in the village. Newton, Warwickshire Newton is a small village in the civil parish of Newton and Biggin in the Rugby"
"the stereotypical Sloane Ranger's supposed antipathy to the champagne socialist stereotype of the Hampstead liberal. Although Sloanes are nowadays supposedly more widely spread and amorphous than in the past, they are still perceived to socialise in the expensive areas of west London, most notably Kings Road, Fulham Road, Kensington High Street, and other areas of Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham. The pubs and nightclubs in these areas are popular with Sloanes, in particular the White Horse pub, known as the ""Sloaney Pony"" in Fulham, and the Admiral Codrington, known as ""The Cod"", in Chelsea. Sloanes are associated with being educated at"
"Henshaw (from Ancoats) and Liam and Noel Gallagher from Burnage band Oasis. The actor Caroline Aherne (raised in Wythenshawe) spoke with a softer, slower version of the accent. Stretford raised Morrissey – like many Mancunians, from an Irish background – has a local accent with a noticeable lilt inherited from his parents. Salford-born Tony Wilson retained his Manchester accent albeit somewhat modified by his upbringing in Marple and his Cambridge education. Salford poet John Cooper Clarke is another fine example of a working-class Mancunian accent as can be heard in his spoken-word recordings. Also from Salford is comedian Jason Manford,"
"Ballynary Ballynary () is the name of a townland on the eastern shore of Lough Arrow in the southern corner of County Sligo in Ireland. Ballynary was the ancestral seat of the O'Higgins family (or Ó hUiginn in Gaelic) for 700 years, until they were forced off their lands in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell. The Chief of the O'Higgins Clan today uses the courtesy title of ""The O'Higgins of Ballynary"" or ""Lord of Ballynary"" although his family have not lived there since the 17th century. The townland of Ballynary contains just over and bordered the townland of Ballindoon where the"
"Lanyon (Madron) Lanyon is a hamlet in the parish of Madron in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated on a north facing slope on the Madron to Morvah road. The nearest town is Penzance to the south. Lanyon derives from ""Lyn yeyn"" in the Cornish language meaning cold pool. It has been previously written as Liniein, Leniein, Lenien (all three in 1214), Linyeine (1244), Lenyen (1285), Lynyeyn (1326), Lanyayn (1443) and Lennyen (1447). In 1878, Wayfarer in The Cornishman, and in 1880 William Bottrell states the name was pronounced as ""La-nine"" and ""Lanine"" respectively. The Lanyon surname originates from the"
"cattle drovers. Cattle drovers established at least 70 communities established in England and Wales, many of which still exist. They were temporary homes for long distance drovers, driving their cattle to the great fairs and markets of London and other centres in England. They were on common land, separated from local communities. The drovers had a licence to travel, granted by Elizabeth I, and were regarded as ""foreigners"" by the local parishioners who could not travel without a ""settlement certificate"". One of the Old English words for ""foreigners"" was ""utlenden"" (""outlanders""), which could be corrupted to ""Little London"". Little London,"
"is also distinctive, having regional variants in Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, York, Hull, Middlesbrough (sometimes grouped with North east accents) While many of the Lancashire accents may sound similar to outsiders, the exception is the 'Scouse' accent, as spoken in Liverpool and to some extent the surrounding towns. Prior to the Irish Famine of the 1840s the Liverpool accent was not dissimilar to others in Lancashire, except that with Liverpool being close to Wales, there were some Northern Welsh inflections. However, Liverpool's population of around 60,000 in the 1840s was swelled by the passage of around 300,000 Irish refugees escaping the"
"by several archaeologists. Archaeologist Miles Russell suggests that their original name may have been ""Bodunni"", connecting this with the Celtic word ""*bouda"" meaning ""Victorious"", in the sense of ""The Victorious Ones"". The tribe lived in the part of southwestern Britain that today broadly coincides with the English counties of Bristol, Gloucestershire and the north of Somerset, although at times their territory may have extended into parts of what are now Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire. Their capital acquired the Roman name of ""Corinium Dobunnorum"", which is today known as Cirencester. Their Territory was bordered by the Cornovii and Corieltauvi"
"Londoners (book) Londoners : the days and nights of London now—as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it and long for it is a 2011 book by Canadian-born British author, Craig Taylor. The book contains 80 different stories written by Londoners and other associated with the city about their perspective on the city. Those who contributed to the book included the woman who voices station announcements on the London Underground, a man who plants trees along Oxford Street, a British Pakistani currency trader and a guardsman at Buckingham Palace The book is divided into three"
"he would have encountered poet John Clare, whose behaviour became so erratic that he was removed to the asylum in 1837. William Morris, artist, writer and socialist, was born in Walthamstow in 1834, and spent his early years in what was then rural Essex, close to the outlying sections of the forest. Arthur Morrison, ""the English Zola"", lived successively at Chingford, Loughton, and High Beach in the forest, and – particularly in ""To London Town"" – the forest is used as a contrast to the East London deprivation he wrote about. Horace Newte, his contemporary and friend, lived at Loughton"
"much of its identity. Inter-county Gaelic footballers Mickey 'Ned' O'Sullivan, Stephen O'Brien and Paul O'Connor are from the Kenmare area, while Pat Spillane is from nearby Templenoe. Kenmare is also the home of Irish Olympic slalom skier Thos Foley. Kenmare was home to composer Ernest John Moeran for a number of years up to his death and a local bar was named after him - but has since been renamed. Diplomat Con Cremin was also from Kenmare, as is senator Mark Daly. Writer Anna McPartlin grew up in Kenmare, and her 2007 novel ""Apart from the Crowd"" was set in"
"London London ( ) is the capital and largest city of the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in southeastern England, upstream from its estuary with the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. ""Londinium"" was founded by the Romans. The City of London, London's ancient core − an area of just and colloquially known as the Square Mile − retains its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster is also an Inner London borough holding city status. Greater London is governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. London is often considered as"