The Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England – which after 1535 included Wales – ceased being a separate sovereign state on 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union put into effect the terms agreed in the Treaty of Union the previous year, resulting in a political union with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.[14][15] In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland (through another Act of Union) to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.[16]

Contents
1 Toponymy
2 History
2.1 Prehistory and antiquity
2.2 Middle Ages
2.3 Early modern
2.4 Late modern and contemporary
3 Governance
3.1 Politics
3.2 Law
3.3 Regions, counties, and districts
4 Geography
4.1 Landscape and rivers
4.2 Climate
4.3 Nature and wildlife
4.4 Major conurbations
5 Economy
5.1 Science and technology
5.2 Transport
5.3 Energy
5.4 Tourism
6 Healthcare
7 Demography
7.1 Population
7.2 Language
7.3 Religion
8 Education
9 Culture
9.1 Architecture
9.2 Gardens
9.3 Folklore
9.4 Cuisine
9.5 Visual arts
9.6 Literature, poetry, and philosophy
9.7 Performing arts
9.8 Cinema
9.9 Museums, libraries, and galleries
10 Media
11 Sport
12 National symbols
13 See also
14 Notes
15 References
15.1 Bibliography
16 External links
Toponymy
See also: Toponymy of England
The name “England” is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means “land of the Angles”.[17] The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages. The Angles came from the Anglia peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area (present-day German state of Schleswig–Holstein) of the Baltic Sea.[18] The earliest recorded use of the term, as “Engla londe”, is in the late-ninth-century translation into Old English of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The term was then used in a different sense to the modern one, meaning “the land inhabited by the English”, and it included English people in what is now south-east Scotland but was then part of the English kingdom of Northumbria. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Domesday Book of 1086 covered the whole of England, meaning the English kingdom, but a few years later the Chronicle stated that King Malcolm III went “out of Scotlande into Lothian in Englaland”, thus using it in the more ancient sense.[19]