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Nicolas Jubber
Nicholas Jubber is a British people, British travel writer. He was educated at Downside School and Oxford University. After obtaining a degree in English, he taught in Jerusalem. He has travelled throughout South America, Europe, the Middle East and East Africa. He has worked as a journalist and is also a produced playwright; one of his plays was staged at the Edinburgh Festival. He has written four books: * ''The Prester Quest'' (winner of the Dolman Prize) * ''Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah’s Beard'' (nominated for the Dolman Prize) * ''The Timbuktu School for Nomads'' * ''Epic Continent'' (nominated for the Dolman Prize) References English writers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford {{UK-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a shared Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
