Are you a writer?  Outside the UK?  Writing fan-fic about British shows?  Well here I'll be listing links that may be of use.
Updated - June 25th 2000.

The British Slash Resource Page

British and Irish Culture & Travel Links (General)

English Culture - Home Page    Loads of information and links, on all aspects of England.
Ireland for Visitors    
Scottish Culture
United Kingdom for visitors
Wales - Home Page
www.britannia.com  
Knowhere - A Users Guide to Britain   Candid opinions on a large number of British towns and cities.

Politics

The Labour Party   Currently the UK's ruling party.  Socialist.  Prime Minister - Tony Blair; Deputy Prime Minister - John Prescott; Chancellor of the Exchequer - Gordon Brown; Foreign Secretary - Robin Cook; Home Secretary - Jack Straw.

The Conservative Party    The main opposition party; leader - William Hague.  Right wing, but not as far right as say the American Republicans.

The Liberal Democratic Party    The third main party; leader - Charles Kennedy.  Sort of somewhere in the middle politically, but these days probably more left than the Labour Party.

All UK Parties Political Register   This site lists all registered political parties in the UK and links to any web-sites they have.  Here you can find links to the Welsh and Scottish Nationalist parties etc, plus some of the wonderfully eccentric British political parties there are around like the Monster Raving Loony Party.


Language

American British - British American Dictionary
Plus lots of other useful comparison charts (weights & measures; spelling differences; public holidays; money; even musical notes)
BritSpeak
Dictionary of English Slang and colloquialisms of the UK
British Slang Glossary
Plus some useful but limited lists of Brit terms for every day items.

Language (regional & specialist)

Scottish Slang Productions
London Slang
Polari - Information on the language used as a gay code before the legalising of homosexuality. Lots of links.

Law

The Crown Prosecution Service

The Criminal Justice System

The Court System

 

The Monarchy

The official Royal Website

Maps

www.streetmap.co.uk
Multimap.com
Mapquest-London

Newspapers (national)

The Times    Upmarket broadsheet.
The Telegraph   Ditto, but more right wing.
The Guardian   The left wing version.
The Daily Express   A tabloid. Typical average family type newspaper.
The Sun   A more down-market tabloid, nationalistic, famous for topless women on page 3, sport, popular with men.  The sort of paper a lot of male slash characters would probably read.
www.neosoft.com/ukgeneral.htm  
A fairly comprehensive list of UK papers, national and local.

Note:  National papers cover the whole country, and are published in the mornings, local papers are usually published afternoon/evening.

Sports

Cricket

Travel

British Waterways
UK Public Transport Information
Travel Timetables
UK Road Travel
 

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