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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 600 Fellows, elected from among the best writers in any genre currently at work. Additionally, Honorary Fellows are chosen from those who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of literature, including publishers, agents, librarians, booksellers or producers. The society is a cultural tenant at London's Somerset House.

History
The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) was founded in 1820, with the patronage of George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent", and its first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (who was later translated as Bishop of Salisbury). As of 2018, the RSL's patron is Queen Camilla, who took over in the role from Elizabeth II.

At the heart of the RSL is its Fellowship, "which encompasses the most distinguished writers working today", with the RSL Council responsible for its direction and management, being drawn from the Fellowship. As an independent charity, the RSL receives no regular public or government funding, relying on the support of its Members, Patrons, Fellows and friends to continue its work. The RSL has about 600 Fellows, elected from among the best writers in any genre currently at work. Additionally, Honorary Fellows are chosen from those who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of literature, including publishers, agents, librarians, booksellers or producers, or who have rendered special service to the RSL. Paid membership is open to all and offers a variety of benefits.

The society publishes an annual magazine, The Royal Society of Literature Review, and administers a number of literary prizes and awards, including the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction, the RSL Encore Award for best second novel of the year and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories.

In 2000, the RSL published a volume that provides a description and history of the society, written by one of its fellows, Isabel Quigly.

In 2020, the RSL celebrated its 200th anniversary with the announcement of RSL 200, "a five-year festival launched with a series of major new initiatives and 60 new appointments championing the great diversity of writing and writers in the UK". Initiatives included RSL Open (electing new Fellows from communities, backgrounds and experiences currently under-represented in UK literary culture), RSL International Writers (recognising the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English) and Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards.

In 2021, the RSL launched "Literature Matters: Reading Together", a project aiming to make recreational reading accessible to young people across the UK.

Fellowship
The society maintains its current level of about 600 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.

Past and present fellows include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Koestler, Chinua Achebe, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Robert Ardrey, Sybille Bedford, Muriel Spark, P. J. Kavanagh, Hilary Mantel, and Sir Roger Scruton. Present Fellows include Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, David Hare, Kazuo Ishiguro, Andrew Motion, Paul Muldoon, Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Sarah Waters, Geoffrey Ashe and J. K. Rowling. A newly created fellow inscribes his or her name on the society's official roll using either Byron's pen, T. S. Eliot's fountain pen, which replaced Dickens's quill in 2013, or (as of 2018) George Eliot's pen, with pens belonging to Jean Rhys and Andrea Levy being additional choices from 2020.

From time to time, the RSL confers the honour and title of Companion of Literature to writers of particular note. Additionally, the RSL can bestow its award of the Benson Medal for lifetime service in the field of literature.

Membership
The RSL runs a membership programme offering a variety of events to members and the general public. Membership of the RSL is open to all.

The RSL also runs an outreach programme, currently for young people and those in prison.

Awards and prizes
The RSL administers two annual prizes, two awards, and two honours. Through its prize programmes, the RSL supports new and established contemporary writers.

 * The RSL Christopher Bland Prize — £10,000 for debut prose writers aged 50 or over.
 * The Encore Awards — £10,000 for best second novel of the year. The RSL took over the administration of this award in 2016.
 * The RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction – annual awards, currently one of £10,000 and one of £5,000 and one of £2,500, to authors engaged on their first commissioned works of non-fiction (replaced the Jerwood Award in 2017).
 * The RSL Ondaatje Prize – an annual award of £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.
 * The V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize – an annual prize of £1,000 for the best unpublished short story of the year.
 * The Benson Medal – awarded to those who have done sustained and outstanding service to literature.
 * Companion of Literature – the highest honour that the Society can bestow upon a writer.

Council and presidents
The Council of the Royal Society of Literature is central to the election of new fellows, and directs the RSL's activities through its monthly meetings. Council members serve for a fixed term of four years, with new members being elected by Council when members retire.

 * Patron
 * Queen Camilla

 * President
 * Bernardine Evaristo

 * Presidents Emeriti
 * Sir Michael Holroyd
 * Colin Thubron
 * Marina Warner

 * Chair of Council
 * Daljit Nagra

 * Vice-Chair of Council
 * Irenosen Okojie

 * Vice-Presidents

 * Lisa Appignanesi
 * Simon Armitage
 * Mary Beard
 * Anne Chisholm
 * Maureen Duffy
 * Maggie Gee
 * Victoria Glendinning
 * Jackie Kay
 * Blake Morrison
 * Grace Nichols
 * Philip Pullman
 * Elif Shafak
 * Kamila Shamsie
 * Colm Tóibín
 * Claire Tomalin
 * Jenny Uglow

 * Council

 * Colin Chisholm, Hon. Treasurer
 * Imtiaz Dharker
 * Louise Doughty
 * Inua Ellams
 * Tessa Hadley
 * Catherine Johnson
 * Helen Mort
 * Daljit Nagra
 * Susheila Nasta
 * Irenosen Okojie
 * Michèle Roberts
 * Roger Robinson
 * Ruth Scurr

 * Boyd Tonkin

List of presidents

 * 1820–1832: Bishop Thomas Burgess
 * 1832–1833: George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover
 * 1834–1845: F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
 * 1845–1849: Henry Hallam
 * 1849–1851: Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
 * 1851–1856: George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
 * 1856–1876: The Rt Rev. Connop Thirlwall (Bishop of St David's until 1874)
 * 1876–1884: The Prince Leopold (Duke of Albany from 1881)
 * 1885–1893: Sir Patrick Colquhoun
 * 1893–1920: Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
 * 1921–1945: Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
 * 1946–1947: Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton
 * 1947–1982: Lord Butler of Saffron Walden
 * 1982–1988: Sir Angus Wilson
 * 1988–2003: Lord Jenkins of Hillhead
 * 2003–2008: Sir Michael Holroyd
 * 2008–2017: Colin Thubron
 * 2017–2021: Marina Warner
 * 2022–present: Bernardine Evaristo

Fellows
The Royal Society of Literature comprises more than 600 Fellows, who are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRSL.

New fellows of the Royal Society of Literature are elected by its current fellows. To be nominated for fellowship, a writer must have published two works of literary merit, and nominations must be seconded by an RSL fellow. All nominations are presented to members of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, who vote biannually to elect new fellows. Nominated candidates who have not been successful are reconsidered at every election for three years from the year in which they were proposed. Newly elected fellows are introduced at the Society's AGM and summer party. While the President reads a citation for each, they are invited to sign their names in the roll book which dates back to 1820, using either T. S. Eliot's fountain pen or Byron's pen. In 2013, Charles Dickens' quill was retired and replaced with Eliot's fountain pen, and in 2018 George Eliot's pen was offered as a choice, the first time in the RSL's history that a pen that belonged to a woman writer was an option.

In 2018, the RSL honoured the achievements of Britain's younger writers through the initiative "40 Under 40", which saw the election of 40 new fellows aged under 40.

In 2020, pens belonging to Andrea Levy and Jean Rhys were added to the choices offered to fellows for signing the RSL roll book.

The RSL's 2022–23 Open initiative aimed to recognise writers from backgrounds currently underrepresented in UK literary culture by electing 60 fellows over a two-year period from communities, backgrounds and experiences currently under-represented in UK literary culture, through drawing on a broad range of writers from "different parts of the UK, from different communities, different demographics", as Bernardine Evaristo noted.

Current fellows
The * before the name denotes an Honorary Fellow. The list is online at the RSL website.

RSL International Writers
The RSL International Writers programme is a new life-long honour and award recognizing the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English, and the power of literature to transcend borders in bringing people together, the inaugural list of recipients being announced in 2021.

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John Coprario

John Coprario (c. 1570 – 1626), also known as Giovanni Coprario or Coperario, was an English composer and viol player.

According to later commentators such as John Playford and Roger North, he changed his name from either Cowper or Cooper to Coperario in the early 17th century (at least as early as February 1601), though he himself spelled his name "John Coprario". Anthony Wood said he changed his name after an extended visit to Italy, and though he is documented as having visited the Low Countries in 1603, evidence confirming his presence in Italy has not been found. From 1622 he served and may have taught the Prince of Wales, for whom he continued to work upon his succession as Charles I. His longtime patron was Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, for whom, according to Thomas Fuller's The History of the Worthies of England (1662), he taught William Lawes.

Among Coprario's works are fantasias, suites and other works for viols and violins, and two collections of songs, Funeral Teares (1606) and Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry (1613). He also penned a treatise on composition, Rules how to Compose.

According to Ernst Meyer, Coprario was a Londoner who Italianized his name as Italian music and musicians became more fashionable, and spent much of his life as a musician in the royal court.

Ninety-six fantasias for three up to six voices, most of them in two Oxford and Royal College of Music collections, were known to exist by Coprario (as of 1946). Meyer also notes that most of Coprario's five- and six-part fantasias are mainly transcriptions, or imitations, of his madrigals, but that his fantasias for three or four instrumental parts are, formally especially, independently interesting.

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Erzya language

The Erzya language (эрзянь кель,, ), also Erzian or historically Arisa, is spoken by approximately 300,000 people in the northern, eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia. A diaspora can also be found in Armenia and Estonia, as well as in Kazakhstan and other states of Central Asia. Erzya is currently written using Cyrillic with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language. In Mordovia, Erzya is co-official with Moksha and Russian.

The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic languages. Erzya is a language that is closely related to Moksha but has distinct phonetics, morphology and vocabulary.

Consonants
The following table lists the consonant phonemes of Erzya together with their Cyrillic equivalents.

Palatalization is widespread in Erzya, but is contrastive only for the alveolar consonants. The labial and velar consonants have palatalized allophones before the front vowels,. The pairs –,  –  and  –  also often alternate depending on a following or preceding back vs. front vowel. E.g. the 1st person singular possessive suffix has allomorphs such as and. The palatalized consonants can natively occur also in a back vowel environment, e.g. the genitive suffix, providing minimal pairs such as кудон 'my house' – кудонь  '(a) house's'. Non-palatalized, , in a front vowel environment are limited to recent Russian loans such as кит  'whale'.

Note on romanized transcription: in Uralic studies, the members of the palatalized series are usually spelled as $⟨ń⟩$, $⟨ť⟩$, $⟨ď⟩$, $⟨ć⟩$, $⟨ś⟩$, $⟨ź⟩$, $⟨ŕ⟩$, $⟨ľ⟩$, while the postalveolar sounds are spelled $⟨č⟩$, $⟨š⟩$, $⟨ž⟩$ (see Uralic Phonetic Alphabet).

and are loan phonemes from Russian. There is a phonemic contrast between and, despite that they share the standard spelling ⟨н⟩. Minimal pairs include:
 * "along the path", in which the alveolar of the stem is retained before the prolative case ending, vs. , the connegative form of the verb  "to break"
 * "good", subject or object complement in translative, vs.  "direction; area". See Rueter 2010: 58.

Vowels
Erzya has a simple five-vowel system.

The front vowels and  have centralized variants  and  immediately following a plain alveolar consonant, e.g.   "they",   "blue".

Vowel harmony
As in many other Uralic languages, Erzya has vowel harmony. Most roots contain either front vowels or back vowels. In addition, all suffixes with mid vowels have two forms: the form to be used is determined by the final syllable of the stem. The low vowel, found in the comparative case -шка "the size of" and the prolative -ка/-га/-ва  "spatial multipoint used with verbs of motion as well as position" is a back vowel and not subject to vowel harmony.

The rules of vowel harmony are as follows:

 * 1) If the final syllable of the word stem contains a front vowel, the front form of the suffix is used: веле  "village", велесэ  "in a village"
 * 2) If the final syllable of the word stem contains a back vowel, and it is followed by plain (non-palatalized) consonants, the back form of the suffix is used: кудо  "house", кудосо  "in a house"

However, if the back vowel is followed by a palatalized consonant or palatal glide, vowel harmony is violated and the "front" form of the suffix is used: кальсэ "with willow", ойсэ  "with butter". Likewise, if a front-vowel stem is followed by a low back vowel suffix, subsequent syllables will contain back harmony: велеванзо "throughout its villages"

Thus the seeming violations of vowel harmony attested in stems, e.g. узере "axe", суре  "thread (string)", are actually due to the palatalized consonants  and.

One exception to front-vowel harmony is observed in palatalized non-final, e.g. асфальтсо "with asphalt".

Morphology
Like all other Uralic languages, Erzya is an agglutinative language which expresses grammatical relations by means of suffixes.

Nouns
Nouns are inflected for case, number, definiteness and possessor. Erzya distinguishes twelve cases (here illustrated with the noun мода "ground, earth"). Number is systematically distinguished only with definite nouns; for indefinite nouns and nouns with a possessive suffix, only the nominative case has a distinct plural.

Plural possessors follow the pattern of second person singular possessors.

Verbs
Erzya verbs are inflected for tense and mood, and are further conjugated for person of subject and object. Traditionally, three stem types are distinguished: a-stems, o-stems and e-stems. A-stems always retain the stem vowel a in the non-third-person present-tense forms, and in the third-person first past-tense forms (e.g. "kissed"). With many o-stems and e-stems, the stem vowel is dropped in these forms (e.g. o-stem "watched", e-stem  "swallowed"), but there also o- and e-stem verbs which retain the vowel ( "slept",  "cooked"). Rueter (2010) therefore divides verb stems into vowel-retaining stems and vowel-dropping stems.

In indicative mood, three tenses are distinguished: present/future, first past, second (=habitual) past.

The third-person singular form in the present tense is also used as present participle. The second past tense is formed by adding the past-tense copula to the present participle.

The other mood categories are:
 * conditional ( + present suffixes)
 * conjunctive ( + past suffixes)
 * conditional-conjunctive ( + past suffixes)
 * desiderative ( + past suffixes)
 * optative ( + present suffixes)
 * imperative

Cyrillic alphabet
The modern Erzya alphabet is the same as for Russian:

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 * А ||Б ||В ||Г ||Д ||Е ||Ё ||Ж ||З ||И ||Й
 * К ||Л ||М ||Н ||О ||П ||Р ||С ||Т ||У ||Ф
 * Х ||Ц ||Ч ||Ш ||Щ ||Ъ ||Ы ||Ь ||Э ||Ю ||Я
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 * Х ||Ц ||Ч ||Ш ||Щ ||Ъ ||Ы ||Ь ||Э ||Ю ||Я
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The letters ф, х, щ and ъ are only used in loanwords from Russian. The pre-1929 version of the Erzya alphabet included the additional letter Ҥ|Cyrillic ligature En Ge (Ҥ ҥ) in some publications, (cf. Evsevyev 1928).

In combination with the alveolar consonants т, д, ц, с, з, н, л, and р, vowel letters are employed to distinguish between plain and palatalized articulations in a similar way as in Russian: а, э, ы, о, у follow plain alveolars, while я, е, и, ё, ю follow palatalized alveolars, e.g. та /ta/, тэ /te/, ты /ti/, то /to/, ту /tu/ vs. тя /tʲa/, те /tʲe/, ти /tʲi/, тё /tʲo/, тю /tʲu/. If no vowel follows, palatalization is indicated by ь, e.g. ть /tʲ/. Following non-alveolar consonants, only а, е, и, о, у occur, e.g. па /pa/, пе /pe/, пи /pi/, по /po/, пу /pu/.

Latin alphabet
A Latin alphabet was officially approved by the government of Nizhne-Volzhskiy Kray in 1932, but it was never used:
 * a в c ç d ә e f g y i j k l m n o p r s ş t u v x z ƶ ь

One of the modern Latin alphabet proposals:
 * a b c č ć d d́/ď e f g h i j k l ĺ/ľ m n ń o p r ŕ s š ś t t́/ť u v z ž ź

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The Hummingbirds

The Hummingbirds were an Australian indie pop and jangle pop band from Sydney, who formed in 1986 from Bug Eyed Monsters. They were one of the most highly regarded outfits to emerge from Sydney's inner-city scene during the late 1980s and were an early signing to the rooArt label. The Hummingbirds' single "Blush" peaked at No.19 on the ARIA singles charts in 1989. They left rooArt in 1992, and disbanded in 1993.

Biography
The Hummingbirds formed in 1986 from the remnants of the short lived band Bug Eyed Monsters. Band members originally comprised singer and guitarist Simon Holmes, bassist John Boyce and drummer Mark Temple, after a few months of initial rehearsals as a three-piece, vocalist and guitarist Alannah Russack signed on. In early 1987, Boyce departed and was replaced by singer and bassist Robyn St. Clare. They were one of Australia's most promising acts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, along with other up-and-comers like Ratcat, Clouds, Tall Tales and True and The Falling Joys.

They debuted in July 1987, with the single "Alimony", it was followed by three more singles, "Get On Down"/"Everything You Said" in January 1988, "Swim to Shore" in July and "Hindsight" in November. All four singles were released on the independent label, Phantom Records. All four singles were also re-issued by Phantom Records under the title Quatro in 1989.

The Hummingbirds signed to rooART in early 1989. They released their single "Blush" that August and it reached number one on the alternative music chart, and No.19 on the ARIA singles charts. Their first album, loveBUZZ, produced by Mitch Easter, was released in 1989. and peaked at No.31 on the ARIA album charts. It earned an American release, though sales were slow despite excellent reviews. In December 1989, Nic Dalton (The Plunderers) filled in on bass guitar as St. Clare, the regular bassist, took leave due to illness. Dalton left to join US alternative rock band The Lemonheads, The Hummingbirds had played support to The Lemonheads 1991 tour of Australia. Greg Atkinson, from the Ups and Downs and Big Heavy Stuff, also filled in on bass during 1991.

The Hummingbirds continued recording, releasing another album produced by Easter, April 1991's Va Va Voom, which peaked at No.44 on the ARIA album charts. However, its release was delayed due to problems with RooArt. They were freed from their contract after the May 1992 release, "You Just Gotta Know My Mind", with Dalton again deputising for St. Clare – who was pregnant with her and Holmes' son Milo.

In 1993, The Hummingbirds made two EPs on the small independent label IV Recordings, Gone, (in February) and, Tail, (in July). The band found it hard to justify their move from a major label like rooART to the smaller IV Recordings, and broke up after the release of Tail. They played their final show on 11 December 1993, at the Central Club Hotel in (Richmond) Melbourne, featuring Holmes, Russack, St. Clare and Melder.

Post break-up
Simon Holmes joined Her Name in Lights, which issued their debut album, Into the Light Again in October 2004. He then went on to record other albums with a new band, Fragile. Alannah Russack played in Sydney as a solo artist. Robyn St. Clare, whose composition "Into Your Arms" was a hit for The Lemonheads, has recorded with Ratcat. Mark Temple earned a PhD from the University of New South Wales, and now is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology at Western Sydney University.

Reunions
After 17 years, the band reformed for a reunion on 27 January 2011, for the Big Day Out festival in Sydney. The line-up featured Holmes, Temple and Russack, with St. Clare replaced on bass. The band followed the Big Day Out reunion show with some additional performances later that year;

Thursday 7 July 2011 – Simon Holmes and Alannah Russack (acoustic performance), Union Hotel, Newtown.

Saturday 17 September 2011 – full band at the Manning Bar, Sydney University. The day before the show at the Manning Bar, the band played a short set for "Live at the Loft" on 2SER radio and were also interviewed by DJ Andrew Khedoori. The line-up featured Holmes, Temple, Russack and Danny Yau on bass.

Along with The Falling Joys, the band reunited to play two shows on the 2nd and 3rd (matinee show) of July 2016 at the Newtown Social Club in Sydney (previously known as the Sandringham Hotel, Newtown). The line-up featured Holmes, Temple, Russack and Danny Yau again on bass.

The band played as part of a tribute concert to The Cure, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of The Cure album Wish. The gig took place at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville, Sydney, on 15 April 2017. This was the final concert of The Hummingbirds.

Simon Holmes died in Sydney in July 2017, at the age of 54. A tribute night featuring many bands was held for Simon Holmes on 3 December at the Factory Theater in Sydney. As part of the tribute night a limited edition, self-titled vinyl LP was released, combining all of the tracks from the band's last two EP's 'Gone' and 'Tail', which were originally released only on CD in 1993.

Members

 * John Boyce – bass guitar (1986–1987)
 * Simon Holmes — vocals, guitar (1986–1993, 2011, 2016, 2017) (deceased)
 * Mark Temple – drums (1986–1992, 2011, 2016, 2017)
 * Alannah Russack – vocals, guitar (1986–1993, 2011, 2016, 2017)
 * Robyn St. Clare – bass guitar (1987–1993)
 * Shane Melder – drums (1992–1993)
 * Nic Dalton — bass (1989–1991)
 * Greg Atkinson – bass (1991)
 * Danny Yau – bass (2011, 2016, 2017)

Singles
Notes

ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

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 * Best New Talent
 * Nominated
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 * Breakthrough Artist - Album
 * Won
 * "Blush"
 * Breakthrough Artist - Single
 * Won
 * "Blush"
 * Breakthrough Artist - Single
 * Won

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Röstånga

Röstånga is a locality situated in Svalöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with around 1100 inhabitants.

At Röstånga there is an entrance to the Söderåsen National Park. The main entrance is at Skäralid, 5 km further north. There is also a valley called Nackarpsdalen, at the end of which there is a lake called Odensjön.

To get to Röstånga by public transport, one can take a local train to Stehag, then bus (directions Klippan, Skäralid and Ljungbyhed). There are also bus connections with Svalöv and Teckomatorp.

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Free state

Free state, Free State, or the Free State may refer to:

Places

 * Free State (province), a province of South Africa (1994–present)
 * Orange Free State, a former Boer Republic (1854–1902)
 * Orange Free State (province), a former province of South Africa (1910–1994)
 * Free state (polity), a term used in the official titles of some states, including a list of "free states"
 * Free state (United States), a U.S. state in which slavery was illegal before the American Civil War
 * Maryland, a U.S. state nicknamed the Free State (in abolition and later prohibition contexts)
 * Kansas, a U.S state nicknamed the Free State (in the context of slavery)
 * Free State of Galveston, a 20th-century whimsical name for Galveston, Texas, U.S.
 * Irish Free State (1922–1937), the predecessor of the modern Republic of Ireland

Other uses

 * Free State (cricket team), representing Free State, South Africa
 * Free State Brewing Company, a microbrewery based in Kansas, U.S.
 * Free State Project, an American libertarian political movement
 * Freestate Raceway, a former horse racing track in Maryland, U.S.
 * Free State Review, an American literary journal
 * Lawrence Free State High School, a high school in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
 * University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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