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Marcia V. Keizs

Dr. Marcia V. Keizs, is the sixth President of York College, Jamaica, in the borough of Queens in New York City. She is a native of Kingston, Jamaica and has lived and worked in New York City since 1968.

After graduating from high school in Kingston, she attended the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (B.A. 1967), and Teachers College, Columbia University (M.A. 1971). She holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University (1984) and a Certificate in Educational Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1995).

Keizs has pursued a career in higher education; first as a professor of English at Queensborough Community College/City University of New York (CUNY) where she taught the full range of course offerings including Afro-American Literature. She was the Assistant Director in the acclaimed External Education Degree Program for the Homebound Student, which provides the opportunity for severely disabled students to earn a college degree without leaving home. From 1984 to 1988, Keizs worked at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY where she achieved the title of Assistant Dean for External Affairs, Labor Relations, and Personnel. From 1988 to 1994, Keizs was Vice President and Dean of Student Services at Queensborough Community College with a one-year stint as acting Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs of CUNY.

Keizs has also served as the Acting President within the CUNY system. Her service included Borough of Manhattan Community College, September 1994 to August 1995, and York College, January 5, 1996 to August 1996.

Keizs served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Bronx Community College/CUNY from October 1, 1997 to February 13, 2005. During her tenure as Bronx Community College Vice President of Academic Affairs Keizs strengthened the College’s academic programs by expanding new degree offerings to include Environmental Technology, Therapeutic Recreation, Warehouse Management, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology, Earth Science, Criminal Justice, Security Management, and Certificate Programs to include Animal Care and Management and Licensed Practical Nurse (formerly a non-credit certificate program); improved existing curricula; revitalized the CORE and realigned remediation.

Keizs has attended and/or presented at national and international conferences, e.g. Co-presenter at First Annual International Conference for Community and Further Education Colleges, Bath, England, June 1998; Panelist: AAHE Conference on Education and Collaboration, Washington, DC, March, 1999; Presenter: AACC Pre-Convention workshop on Remediation; Presenter: AACC Politics of Remediation, Nashville Tennessee, April 1999; Presenter: League for Innovation, Phoenix, Arizona March 2003, Assessment & Accountability: The Bronx Community Model; Presenter: AACC Dallas, Texas, April 2003, Begging for Baselines: Creating a Culture of Assessment at BCC; Presenter: Brown vs Board of Education: The Community College Legacy, New York University Network Forum, New Orleans, 2004; attended (by invitation only) Conference on Remediation, Stanford University, spring 1998, Executive Leadership Conference, Cornell University, August 1999, among others. She has served as a commission member on the American Association Community of Colleges Commissions, Technology (past member) and Marketing (current member.)

In her former home community in the Wakefield section of the Bronx where she lived for almost 20 years, Keizs developed an after school program, initiated a civic organization, administered youth employment programs and served on the community board. Keizs has served on the Boards of the National Council on Black American Affairs (Northeast), Teachers College Alumni Council and the Association of Black Women in Higher Education. She currently serves as Chair of The Board of the Morris Heights Health Center in the Bronx, Member of the Greenburgh Library Foundation and a member of the Vestry, St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Hartsdale. She is the Founding Editor of the New York Carib News and has published articles about Afro-American Literature. Keizs is also a member of the Greater Jamaica (New York) Development Corporation and part of the American Council on Education's Commission on Effective Leadership.

In 2019, after 14 years as the president of York College / CUNY Keizs stepped down as the President of York College

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Don't know if you guys want this (please delete if not), but I just happened to have it (placeholder pic, better'n nowt, the lighting is not great, will likely replace whenever). I'm not big on education, but I have written some stuff over on Hackney Downs that I hope is fair and not (too) POV. Be grateful if it were checked, by the way. Tarquin Binary 00:35, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Opposition tidied
Expanded and tidied the opposition/criticism section which seemed to have lots of uses of the word 'also' and made clearer the wider objections to the programme rather than just specific ones.

Alibi 22:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Legal basis
Despite the previous edit Academies (or City Academies) were created by the 1996 Education Act, not the 1998 Act which was the School Standards and Framework Act - there is no schools focused Education Act 1998. Check the Stationers (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts.htm) if you want proof.

Alibi 21:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Having spent an hour reading through several different Acts (the Education Acts 1996, 1997, and 2002), I finally found the piece of legislation which actually established City Academies: the Learning and Skills Act 2000. This modified the Ed Act 1996, and was itself amended again by the Ed Act 2002, completely replacing the section entitled "City technology colleges and city colleges for the technology of the arts" with a new section entitled only "Academies". I have amended the text to reflect, with citations. Therefore, I actually think the Education Act 1996 is barely relevant; it only created the City Technology College framework which was then later amended - in itself, it provided nothing specific to enable the creation of (City) Academies. DWaterson 02:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

WTF?
Am I reading this right? The sucker taxpayers have to pay 90% of the startup costs and 100% of the running costs, yet whomever paid 10% years ago gets to run the school? --Billpg 11:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

As it's the "sucker taxpayers" whose children go to these schools it's not like they're being robbed. Also define run the school - sponsors get to set out at the beginning the ethos of the school and its educational vision but the day to day management of the education is by the principal (the same as any other school). Alibi 09:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes but the principal is appointed by the sponsor as are all the other heads. They are also able to decide contractors that the school takes on (including their own!). Also, I think its wrong that you don't think that having the ability to set ethos is not a big thing. For many children (especially the younger more impressionable ones) this will be the ethos that decides their outlook on life. Oh and finally, the sponsor gets to own the site and the land after 25 years. Finally, the sponsor gets three seats on the board of governers whilst parents only get 1 (potentially representing hundreds of families). So the sponsor can literally run a school anyway HE (I say he as I am unaware of a female sponsor) or the comapny pleases. Not too bad for the sponsor, shame for the parents.

Link
Could whoever is moving the link of the former pupil of an academy please either justify their actions or stop it. Not only is the pupil a former pupil of an academy but he is a former pupil of an academy specifially mentioned in this article - the Kings academy in Middlesbrough. Therefore is his view not a valid one?
 * 'Side-note: What is an in-valid view?'... The question is not of validity but of reliability and notability. Wikipedia uses sources which are well-known and respected in their field. A single student making their views known is not notable.
 * In addition, please remember to sign your posts with this '' ~ '. Thanks, Philipwhiuk 20:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Private Eye
Private Eye seem to be mentioning Wikipedia quite a lot these days, Giovanni di Stefano and other things recently, now this article. For those who haven't read the brief Private Eye article it points out that despite this article claiming 'Previously this school performed extremely well, but since becoming an Academy, is now at the bottom of the league tables' a webpage belonging to Djanogly City Academy still proudly points here as a definition of a City Academy. I guess this could get a bit of attention in the next couple of weeks. JMiall ₰  17:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Balanced? Properly referenced?
I stumbled on this article because it was mentioned in a category re-naming discussion here. What an eye-opener. This article not only fails to maintain a neutral, objective point of view, it is vey poorly referenced. Rather ironic that it's part of the Wikipedia Schools project. It pays lipservice to balance, but to any outside observer it reads like it was largely written by campaigners against academies.

For one thing, it devotes more space to criticism of the academies than to actually describing their key aspects, e.g. their specialisms and the fact that the 10% aptitude selection relates to those specialism(s). I've added a one or two referenced sentences about the specialism issue. I've also added a referenced quote from David Cameron dating from the same period as the assertions about the Liberal party's view on city academies. The introduction and expansion of the academies has definitely caused a lot of controversy and attracted a lot of criticism and it's right to cover that. But that section and the following one on "Comparisons", which basically contains more unreferenced criticism (see 2. below) are currently out of proportion (in terms of 'column inches' and detail) to the rest of the article.

Secondly, it is bizarre to put an external link to a web site run by a disgruntled former pupil of a city academy without adding a counter-balancing link. I've now added one from a student defending city academies who found his to be a positive experience.

And finally I've added Fact to the following:

 * 1) "Academies that have already demonstrated strong success are the City Academy, Bristol and Mossbourne Academy in Hackney." What is the reliable source for this assertion? Why should anyone believe that?
 * 2) "The academy can therefore 'select' after admission by finding excuses to exclude poorly performing pupils, and so artificially boost their league table scores." What is the reliable source for this assertion? Why should anyone believe that?
 * 3) "most famously, the Evangelical Christian car dealer, Sir Peter Vardy, who has been accused of promoting the teaching of creationism alongside macroevolution in two academies he sponsors in Gateshead and Middlesbrough." Accused by whom? Reported in which reliable source? I strongly suggest the editors here read Avoid weasel words
 * 4) "Lord Irvine Laidlaw, lived as a tax exile in Monaco for almost two decades, thereby avoiding the payment of at least £50 million in UK taxes." What is the reliable source for this assertion?
 * 5) "Some observers on Tyneside have asked how many schools a UK based Laidlaw might have provided through normal payment of taxes, and are perplexed that this arrangement is not considered a national scandal". Who are these un-named 'observers' who consider this to be a national scandal? (Again, read Avoid weasel words). In what reliable source were their observations published?

Both the 'pros' and the 'cons' need referencing, but the unreferenced (and distinctly non neutrally expressed) 'con' statements outnumber the pros by four to one. Voceditenore (talk) 21:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

 * The article states that advocates of the academy programme claim it leads to better exam results but doesn't explain how they accomplish this ? Is independence from local authority control the main driving factor (and if so why/how) or is it something else (and if so what....) ? 2.216.13.220 (talk) 12:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Title
I've boldly moved the article to Academy (English school). "English school" disambiguates in the same way that "Song", "TV series", "Film", "Album" or "Character" does. "England" says nothing - other than perhaps suggesting that "Academy" is a soubriquet for England, like, say, "Albion".

chocolateboy (talk) 19:54, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorting out some issues
I have made some edits to the article to sort out a couple of issues, particularly the way that opposition and criticism of the scheme was all in its own section, while supportive opinion was scattered through the article and in some instances presented as fact rather than opinion. For example the "features of an academy" section contained the statement "compared to their predecessors, academies have largely been considered a success". This isn't a feature of an academy, it's an opinion about academies and the only reference for it came from an article by Andrew Adonis. I've created a new section called "Support for the academies scheme". At the moment the content of that section isn't great - it's almost all from one article in the Observer. Hopefully other editors can improve this section further. Alboran (talk) 22:58, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

US controversy
I removed this information because of the extremely low prominence it is given in Charter Schools article. Writing about it here is tangential and selective. The success or failure of the equivalent US programme, which has included thousands of schools, might be judged in many ways and concentrating on this is arbitrary and biased. Also, the way in which this article attempts to link corruption in the US system with the British academies programme is a clear synthesis of published material designed to advance a particular position. --188.221.105.68 (talk) 17:50, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Background and balance
Made mainly additions of further information to explain what Academies are intended to do, and made some changes to the text to make the article a little more balanced: the tone before suggested that Academies aren't successful and that all the concerns about them are correct, and considering the controversial nature of the programme it is important to present the issue in more objective way and distinguish between assertion and fact.

--In terms of balance, it should also be added that Richard Rose Central Academy in Carlisle has been moved out of special measures in its most recent inspection (and no, I have nothing to do with this school!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.73.206 (talk) 10:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Updates needed?
I think this article might need some major updates. It seems as though this article only really relates to Type 1 academies... i.e. brand new schools or failing schools that were closed and reopened as academies (with a sponsor). It doesn't seem to cover type 2 academies... i.e. Successful schools who voluntarily converted to academy status and do not have a sponsor. Bleaney (talk) 01:27, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree that there is insufficient information about Convertor Acadamies and some of the information about Sponsored Acadamies is now out of date. I have added an "update" template to the article. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 13:16, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Seems Unbalanced
The criticism section of this article is much longer, and much more emphatic that than the support section.Paiforsyth (talk) 15:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

1980's
What of the Government programme of the 1980's whereby schools were encouraged to "Opt-out" of local authority control. Were/are these academies or something else ? 2.216.13.220 (talk) 12:32, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Weren't they mostly faith schools and other non-rational idealogues? 2.31.162.109 (talk) 18:38, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

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http://grammarschools.lincs.sch.uk/admissions/faq lists a lot of schools that have academy status that were never CTCs and yet they have 100% selection. So it seems that academies can still select pupils. Unless Lincolnshire is stopped this probably applies to Grammar SChools over all UK. It maybe a legal challenge would show otherwise? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.244.172.120 (talk) 09:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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MAT- floating
With the publication of the Sutton Trust report, I think we now have enough material to make MATs a separate article and end the redirect. --ClemRutter (talk) 09:46, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Foundation schools
This article needs to clarify the relationship between a "foundation school" and an "academy school". Deipnosophista (talk) 17:35, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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First, I know nothing of Korean history - BUT this aritlce would appear to refer to events during the Seven-Year War so the admiral referenced would appear to be Yi Sun-sin which would make Myeongjong of Joseon an alternate name/tile for King Seonjo? This all needs taking in hand by someone with a proper knowledge of Korean history - and the transliteration of Korean names into the Roman alphabet.

Unfortunately the current level of description in this article would appear to be a Korean equivalent to the British history of 1066 and All That.

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Myeongjong was the king of Joseon before Seonjo stop confusing yourself 202.37.167.84 05:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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For a similar conversation I had with another user, please see the first post on User talk:104.232.119.107. 104.232.119.107 (talk) 05:03, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Also you didn't leave an edit comment, could you explain the reversion? 104.232.119.107 (talk) 05:03, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 02:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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Was listed as a speedy delete with a reason of non-notable, I agree with the non-notable part, but it should be a vfd, hence this posting. Gblaz 16:12, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * I marked it for speedy. Absolutely non notable. Delete. --Raistlin 16:11, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable. KeithD (talk) 16:42, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Neroon reverted to a version without the VfD tag put on by Gblaz. I've reverted back Gblaz' version Tonywalton | Talk 16:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've now reverted back Neroon's edit (which has a minimal amount of extra content plus a screenshot), plus the VfD tag. Tonywalton  | Talk 16:56, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete per everyone else so far Tonywalton | Talk 16:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. Alf 22:58, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Advantest

Advantest Corporation (株式会社アドバンテスト) is a Japanese leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry, and a manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design, production and maintenance of electronic systems including fiber optic and wireless communications equipment and digital consumer products. Based in Tokyo, Advantest produces Memory, SoC and RF test systems.

History
Advantest was founded in Japan in 1954 as Takeda Riken Industry Co., Ltd., and was a maker of electronic measuring instruments. The company entered the semiconductor testing business in 1972, began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1983 and changed its name to Advantest Corporation in 1985. The company’s stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001.

Expanding its semiconductor test business, Advantest established its North American subsidiary, Advantest America, in 1982, and its European operations in Munich in 1983, to locate its sales and service operations closer to its North American and European customers. The company also has subsidiaries throughout Asia and operates in 18 countries. With the integration with Verigy completed, the company currently has approximately 6,464 employees worldwide.

In 2002, Advantest was one of the founding member companies that established the Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC)—the first international, industry-wide collaboration aimed at developing a highly scalable, flexible test platform to reduce the cost of test of SoCs and other advanced ICs that incorporate complex technologies such as copper interconnects, sub-100 nm device geometries and 300mm wafers.

Astronics Corporation sold their semiconductor test business to Advantest in 2018 for $185 million.

Advantest completed its acquisition of U.S.-based, final-test and system-level test equipment supplier Essai, Inc in January 2020.

Advantest acquired R&D Altanova, Inc., a U.S.-based supplier of semiconductor test equipment in October 2021.

In June 2022, Advantest acquired Italy-based CREA - Collaudi Elettronici Automatizzati S.r.l. (CREA), a major supplier of power semiconductor test equipment.

Products
Advantest has three reportable segments of business: semiconductor and component test systems; mechatronics (handlers); and services, support and others. Advantest offers SoC test systems, memory test systems, test handlers, device interfaces, SEM metrology and review, and SSD test systems.

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French ship Mutin

Four ships of the French Navy have bourne the name of Mutin ("mutinous", or "joker"):

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 * FRENCH CUTTER Mutin, a 14-gun cutter, lead ship of her class.
 * FRENCH CUTTER Passe-Partout, a 4-gun cutter.
 * FRENCH SHIP Mutin, a school cutter.
 * FRENCH CUTTER Mutin, a school cutter of the French Navy presently in service.

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Mueang Samut Songkhram district

Mueang Samut Songkhram (เมืองสมุทรสงคราม, ) is the capital district (amphoe mueang) of Samut Songkhram province, central Thailand.

History
The district was established in 1897, then named Lom Thuan and controlled by Monthon Ratchaburi. In 1900 the district office was moved to a temple area in Ban Prok. The district was named accordingly in 1917. The office was moved again to Mae Klong camp, Mae Klong Subdistrict, and at the same time the name changed to Mae Klong in 1925. In accordance with governmental policy that the capital district name should be the same as the provincial name, Mae Klong district was renamed "Mueang Samut Songkhram" in 1938. Since 1964 the district office is in Tambon Mae Klong.

Thai local people still call Mueang Samut Songkhram by its old name Mae Klong.

Geography

The district is on the shore of the Bay of Bangkok, at the mouth of the Mae Klong River.

Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise) Ban Laem Phetchaburi province, Amphawa, and Bang Khonthi of Samut Songkhram, and Ban Phaeo and Mueang Samut Sakhon of Samut Sakhon province.

Off the coast are the sandbanks of Don Hoi Lot famous for its endemic shell population of Solen regularis. The site has been listed as a Ramsar wetland since 2001.

Administration
The district is divided into 11 sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 85 villages (mubans). Samut Songkhram itself has town status (thesaban mueang) and covers tambon Mae Klong. There are a further 10 tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

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British passport

The British passport is a travel document issued by the United Kingdom or other British dependencies and territories to individuals holding any form of British nationality. It grants the bearer international passage in accordance with visa requirements and serves as proof of citizenship. It also facilitates access to consular assistance from British embassies around the world. Passports are issued using royal prerogative, which is exercised by His Majesty's Government; this means that the grant of a passport is a privilege, not a right, and may be withdrawn in some circumstances. British citizen passports have been issued in the UK by His Majesty's Passport Office, an agency of the Home Office, since 2014. All passports issued in the UK since 2006 have been biometric.

The legacy of the United Kingdom as an imperial power has resulted in several types of British nationality, and different types of British passport exist as a result. Furthermore, each of the Crown dependencies and certain Overseas territories issue their own variants of British passports to those with links to their jurisdictions, which have small differences from the UK-variant passport. All British passports enable the bearer to request consular assistance from British embassies and from certain Commonwealth embassies in some cases. British citizens can use their passport as evidence of right of abode in the United Kingdom.

Between 1920 and 1992, the standard design of British passports was a navy blue hardcover booklet featuring the royal coat of arms emblazoned in gold. From 1988, the UK adopted machine readable passports in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organization standard 9303. At this time, the passport colour was also changed to burgundy red, to bring it into line with the European Community passports of the other member states. The previous blue hardback passport continued to be issued in tandem with the new design until stocks were exhausted in 1992.

Pre-Brexit, the contract for printing British passports had been held by British company De La Rue. In 2018, the contract for printing post-Brexit was awarded to Franco-Dutch company Gemalto, which in 2019 became Thales DIS, part of the multinational Thales Group. The passport booklets will be printed more cheaply in Poland, with a controversial loss of printer jobs at De La Rue, but the passports will be personalised in the UK across two sites. All passports are now issued with the blue design and they are made by Thales DIS in Poland.

British citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 192 countries and territories; the international access available to British citizens ranks third in the world according to the 2024 Visa Restrictions Index. Since the introduction of biometric passports in 2006, a new design has been introduced every five years.

Early passports (1414–1921)
King Henry V of England is credited with having invented what some consider the first passport in the modern sense, as a means of helping his subjects prove who they were in foreign lands. The earliest reference to these documents is found in the Safe Conducts Act 1414. In 1540, granting travel documents in England became a role of the Privy Council of England, and it was around this time that the term "passport" was introduced. In Scotland, passports were issued by the Scottish Crown and could also be issued on the Crown's behalf by burghs, Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow, senior churchmen and noblemen. Passports were still signed by the monarch until 1685, when the Secretary of State could sign them instead. The Secretary of State signed all passports in place of the monarch from 1794 onwards, at which time formal records started to be kept; all of these records still exist. Passports were written in Latin or English until 1772, then in French until 1858. Since that time, they have been written in English, with some sections translated into French. In 1855, passports became a standardised document issued solely to British nationals. Passports in England and Wales were issued by the Home Secretary, and in Scotland by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh or Glasgow. They were a simple single-sheet hand-drafted paper document.

Some duplicate passports and passport records are available at the British Library; for example IOR: L/P&J/11 contain a few surviving passports of travelling ayahs from the 1930s. A passport issued on 18 June 1641 and signed by King Charles I still exists.

Starting in the late 19th century, an increasing number of Britons began travelling abroad due to the advent of railways and travel services such as the Thomas Cook Continental Timetable. The speed of trains, as well as the number of passengers that crossed multiple borders, made enforcement of passport laws difficult, and many travellers did not carry a passport in this era. However, the outbreak of World War I led to the introduction of modern border controls, including in the UK with passage of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914. Thus, in 1915 the British government developed a new format of passport that could be mass-produced and used to quickly identify the bearer. The new passport consisted of a printed sheet folded into ten and affixed to a clothed cardboard cover. It included a description of the holder as well as a photograph, and had to be renewed after two years.

Passport booklets (1921–1993)
In October 1920, the League of Nations held the Paris Conference on Passports & Customs Formalities and Through Tickets. British diplomats joined with 42 countries to draft passport guidelines and a general booklet design resulted from the conference. The League model specified a 32-page booklet of 15.5 cm by 10.5 cm (6.1 inches by 4.1 inches). The first four pages were reserved for detailing the bearer's physical characteristics, occupation and residence.

The British government formed the Passport Office in the same year and in 1921 began issuing 32-page passports with a navy blue hardcover with an embossed coat of arms. "BRITISH PASSPORT" was the common identifier printed at the top of all booklets, while the name of the issuing government was printed below the coat of arms (e.g. United Kingdom, New Zealand, Hong Kong). Cut-outs in the cover allowed the bearer's name and the passport number to be displayed. This format would remain the standard for most British passports until the introduction of machine-readable passports in 1988. It continued to be issued in the United Kingdom until the end of 1993.

As with many contemporary travel documents worldwide, details were handwritten into the passport and (as of 1955) included: number, holder's name, "accompanied by his wife" and her maiden name, "and" (number) "children", national status. For both bearer and wife: profession, place and date of birth, country of residence, height, eye and hair colour, special peculiarities, signature and photograph. Names, birth dates, and sexes of children, list of countries for which valid, issue place and date, expiry date, a page for renewals and, at the back, details of the amount of foreign exchange for travel expenses (a limited amount of sterling, typically £50 but increasing with inflation, could be taken out of the country). The bearer's sex was not explicitly stated, although the name was written in with title ("Mr John Smith"). Descriptive text was printed in both English and French (a practice which continues), e.g., "Accompanied by his wife (Maiden name)/Accompagné de sa femme (Née)". Changed details were struck out and rewritten, with a rubber-stamped note confirming the change.

If details and photograph of a man's wife and details of children were entered (this was not compulsory), the passport could be used by the bearer, wife, and children under 16, if together; separate passports were required for the wife or children to travel independently. Until 1972 the passport was valid for five years, renewable for another five, after which it had to be replaced.

Renewal of a passport required physical cancellation of the old passport, which was then returned to the bearer. The top-right corner of its front cover was cut off and "Cancelled" was stamped into one or both of the cut-outs in the front cover, which showed the passport number and the bearer's name, as well on the pages showing the bearer's details and the document's validity.

For much of the 20th century, the passport had a printed list of countries for which it was valid, which was added to manually as validity increased. A passport issued in 1955 was valid for the British Commonwealth, USA, and all countries in Europe "including the USSR, Turkey, Algeria, Azores, Canary Islands, Iceland, and Madeira"; during its period of validity restrictions eased and it was endorsed "and for all other foreign countries".

The British visitor's passport
A new simplified type, the British Visitor's Passport, was introduced in 1961. It was a single sheet of cardboard, folded in three so as to consist of six pages the same size as those of a regular passport, and was valid for one year. It was obtainable for many years from Employment Exchanges, as agents of the Passport Office, and later from a Post Office. It was accepted for travel by most west European countries (excluding surface travel to West Berlin), but was dropped in 1995 since it did not meet new security standards. A cancelled passport, which was returned to the bearer, had its top-right corner cut off, which had the effect of removing a corner from every page.

Machine-readable passports (1988–2006)
After the passport standardisation efforts of the 1920s, further effort to update international passport guidance was limited. The United Kingdom joined the European Communities in 1973, at a time when the Communities was looking to strengthen European civic identity. Between 1974 and 1975, the member states developed a common format. Member states agreed that passports should be burgundy in colour and feature the heading "European Community" in addition to the country name. Adoption by member states was voluntary. While most of the Community adopted the format by 1985, the UK continued to issue the traditional blue booklet.

Rapid growth of air travel and technological change led to the International Civil Aviation Organization defining a new international standard for machine-readable passports, ICAO Doc 9303, in 1980. An ICAO standard machine-readable passport was a significant departure from the traditional British passport layout, and the British government did not immediately adopt it. In 1986, the United States announced the US Visa Waiver Program. The concept allowed for passport holders of certain countries to enter the US for business or tourism without applying for a visitor visa. The UK was the first country to join the scheme in 1988; however, a requirement was that the traveller hold a machine-readable passport. Thus, the British government was, after nearly 70 years, forced to retire the traditional navy blue League of Nations format passport. With the move to machine-readable passports, the UK decided to adopt the European Community format. On 15 August 1988, the Glasgow passport office became the first to issue burgundy-coloured machine-readable passports. They had the words 'European Community' on the cover, later changed to 'European Union' in 1997. The passport had 32 pages; while a 48-page version was made available with more space for stamps and visas. Two lines of machine-readable text were printed in ICAO format, and a section was included in which relevant terms ("surname", "date of issue", etc.) were translated into the official EU languages. Passports issued overseas did not all have a Machine Readable Zone, but these were introduced gradually as appropriate equipment was made available overseas.

While other British territories such as Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands were not part of the European Community, they also adopted the same European format, although "British Passport" remained at the top rather than "European Community".

In 1998 the first digital image passport was introduced with photographs being replaced with images printed directly on the data page which was moved from the cover to an inside page to reduce the ease of fraud. These documents were all issued with machine-readable zones and had a hologram over the photograph, which was the first time that British passports had been protected by an optically variable safeguard. These documents were issued until 2006 when the biometric passport was introduced.

Series A (2006–2015)
In the late 1990s, ICAO's Technical Advisory Group began developing a new standard for storing biometric data (e.g. photo, fingerprints, iris scan) on a chip embedded in a passport. The September 11 attacks involving the hijacking of commercial airliners led to the rapid incorporation of the group's technical report into ICAO Doc 9303.

The Identity and Passport Service issued the first biometric British passport on 6 February 2006, known as Series A. This was the first British passport to feature artwork. Series A, version 1 was produced between 2006 and 2010, while an updated version 2 with technical changes and refreshed artwork was produced between 2010 and 2015.

Version 1 showcased birds native to the British Isles. The bio-data page was printed with a finely detailed background including a drawing of a red grouse, and the entire page was protected from modification by a laminate which incorporates a holographic image of the kingfisher; visa pages were numbered and printed with detailed backgrounds including drawings of other birds: a merlin, curlew, pied avocet, and red kite. An RFID chip and antenna were visible on the official observations page and held the same visual information as printed, including a digital copy of the photograph with biometric information for use with facial recognition systems. The Welsh and Scottish Gaelic languages were included in all British passports for the first time, and appeared on the titles page replacing the official languages of the EU, although the EU languages still appeared faintly as part of the background design. Welsh and Scottish Gaelic preceded the official EU languages in the translations section.

In 2010, Her Majesty's Passport Office signed a ten-year, £400 million contract with De La Rue to produce British passports. This resulted in Series A, version 2, which introduced minor security enhancements. The biometric chip was relocated from the official observations page to inside the cover, and the observations page itself was moved from the back of the passport to immediately after the data page. All new art was produced for version 2, this time with a coastal theme. Data and visa pages featured coastal scenes, wildlife and meteorological symbols.

Renewal of the passport required physical cancellation of the old passport, which was then returned to the bearer. The top-right corners of its front and back covers were cut off, as well as the top-right corner of the final pair of pages, which had been bound in plastic with the bearer's details and a digital chip; a white bar-coded form stating "Renewal" and the bearer's personal details was stuck onto the back cover.

Series B (2015–2020)
HMPO's contract with De La Rue involved the design of a new generation of biometric passport, which was released in October 2015 as the Series B passport. The cover design remained the same as Series A, with minor changes to the cover material. The number of pages of a standard passport was increased from 32 to 34, and the 50-page 'jumbo' passport replaced the previous 48-page business passport. New security features included rich three-dimensional UV imagery, cross-page printing and a single-sheet bio-data page joined with the back cover. A new typeface for the cover (Times New Roman) was adopted as well. At the time of its introduction, no other passport offered visa free access to more countries than the UK's Series B British passport.

The theme of the Series B passport was 'Creative United Kingdom', and HMPO described the Series B artwork as the most intricate ever featured in a British passport. Each double-spread page set featured artwork celebrating 500 years of achievements in art, architecture and innovation in the UK. Ordnance Survey maps were also printed inside featuring places related to the imagery. A portrait of William Shakespeare was embedded in each page as a watermark.

The Series B passport was initially issued to British citizens with "European Union" printed on the cover. However, new stocks of the Series B from March 2019 onwards removed the reference in anticipation of withdrawal from the EU. The premature change was controversial given the uncertainty and division in the UK during 2019.

Series C (2020–present)
The introduction of the burgundy machine-readable passport between 1988 and 1993 had been met with significant resistance. The burgundy passports attracted criticism for their perceived flimsiness, mass-produced nature and sudden deviation from the traditional design. There was speculation regarding re-introduction of the old-style passport following the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. but the government denied any immediate plans. Such a change was supported by some due to its symbolic value, including Brexit Secretary David Davis, while others thought the undue weight put on such a trivial change raised the question of whether the government was able to prioritise its order of business ahead of Brexit. Nevertheless, the British passport was due for an update in 2020, as the existing De La Rue passport contract was expiring.

On 2 April 2017, Michael Fabricant MP said that De La Rue had stated that the coat of arms would "contrast better on navy blue than it currently does on the maroon passports" as part of their pre-tender discussions with the government. In December 2017, then Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis announced that the blue passport would "return" after exit from the EU.

Following open tender under EU public procurement rules in 2018, the Franco-Dutch security firm Gemalto was selected over British banknote and travel document printer De La Rue. The result of the tender proved highly controversial, as it saw the production of British passport blanks moved from Gateshead in the UK to Tczew, Poland. Most passports are produced in Poland, due to it being more cost efficient. However, urgent, fast-tracked or premium-service passports, which are 34 or 50 pages, are locally produced at application-processing centres in the UK.

On 10 March 2020, the new Series C blue British passport officially began to be issued. Series B passports would also be issued while the Home Office used up old stock.

On 25 September 2020, HMPO announced all British passports issued would now be blue.

Series C introduces a polycarbonate laser-engraved bio-data page with an embedded RFID chip. Also embedded in the data page is a decoding lens which optically unscrambles information hidden on the official observations page and inner front cover. The reverse of the polycarbonate data page serves as the title page and features a portrait-orientation photo of the bearer, reminiscent of pre-1988 passports. Series C features very little artwork, with a compass rose being the only printed art. The passport has the national flowers of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (Tudor Rose, Shamrock, Scotch Thistle and Daffodil, respectively) embossed on the back cover.

Second World War
The National Registration Act established a National Register which began operating on 29 September 1939 (National Registration Day). This introduced a system of identity cards, and a requirement that they must be produced on demand or presented to a police station within 48 hours. Identity cards had to be carried by every man, woman, and child at all times. They included information such as name, age, address, and occupation.

Prior to National Registration Day, 65,000 enumerators across the country delivered forms which householders were required to record their details on. On the following Sunday and Monday the enumerators visited every household, checked the form before issuing a completed identity card for each of the residents. All cards at this time were the same brown/buff colour.

Three main reasons for their introduction:

 * 1. The major dislocation of the population caused by mobilisation and mass evacuation and also the wartime need for complete manpower control and planning in order to maximise the efficiency of the war economy.
 * 2. The likelihood of rationing (introduced from January 1940 onwards).
 * 3. Population statistics. As the last census had been held in 1931, there was little accurate data on which to base vital planning decisions. The National Register was in fact an instant census and the National Registration Act closely resembles the 1920 Census Act in many ways

On 21 February 1952, it no longer became necessary to carry an identity card. The National Registration Act of 1939 was repealed on 22 May 1952.

Abandoned plans for "next generation" biometric passports and national identity registration
There had been plans, under the Identity Cards Act 2006, to link passports to the Identity Cards scheme. However, in the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement that followed the 2010 General Election, the new government announced that they planned to scrap the ID card scheme, the National Identity Register, and the next generation of biometric passports, as part of their measures "to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion".

The Identity Cards Act 2006 would have required any person applying for a passport to have their details entered into a centralised computer database, the National Identity Register, part of the National Identity Scheme associated with identity cards and passports. Once registered, they would also have been obliged to update any change to their address and personal details. The identity card was expected to cost up to £60 (with £30 going to the Government, and the remainder charged as processing fees by the companies that would be collecting the fingerprints and photographs). In May 2005 the Government said that the cost for a combined identity card and passport would be £93 plus processing fees.

The next generation of biometric passports, which would have contained chips holding facial images and fingerprints, were to have been issued from 2012. Everyone applying for a passport from 2012 would have had their 10 fingerprints digitally scanned and stored on a database, although only two would have been recorded in the passport.

Nobody in the UK is required to carry any form of ID. In everyday situations, most authorities, such as the police, do not make spot checks of identification for individuals, although they may do so in instances of arrest.

Five Nations Passport Group
Since 2004, the United Kingdom has participated in the Five Nations Passport Group, an international forum for cooperation between the passport issuing authorities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States to "share best practices and discuss innovations related to the development of passport policies, products and practices".

Types of British passports
There are many types of British passports, for the different classes of British nationality, variants for certain territories, as well as diplomatic, official, collective and emergency passports. The following table shows the number of valid British passports on the last day of 2023 for each nationality class:

Common format
Common format British passports are issued to British citizens (except those applying in the Crown Dependencies), British Nationals (Overseas), British subjects, British Overseas citizens and British protected persons. They are also issued to British Overseas Territories citizens applying in the UK, in a territory that does not have a local variant, or from abroad. All these passports have the same cover, but the class of British nationality is specified on the personal information page.

All common format British passports are issued by HM Passport Office in the UK. British nationals may apply for a passport online or by post, from any location. From 2011, British diplomatic missions only issue emergency passports.

Local variants
Local variants of British passports are issued to British citizens in the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey, and to British Overseas Territories citizens (BOTCs) in Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Saint Helena and Turks and Caicos Islands. These passports display the name of the dependency or territory on the cover, on page 1 and on the personal information page, and the greeting inside their cover is in the name of the respective governor or lieutenant governor instead of the British monarch.

Although variant passports are produced in the UK, applicants can only request them from the government of the respective dependency or territory. British nationals from these jurisdictions applying directly in the UK receive a common format passport. BOTCs who are also British citizens may hold both types of passports.

In the machine-readable zone of BOTC variant passports, the field of the issuing state used to be three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the territory, which allowed automatic distinction between BOTCs of different territories. However, after HM Passport Office in the UK assumed the responsibility for the production of BOTC variant passports in 2015, the code of the issuing state changed to GBR for all territories, thus making it impossible to identify the holder's domicile without the aid of other features, such as the passport cover. The lack of automatic distinction created problems for Bermudians travelling to the United States, who do not need a visa or ESTA if identified as BOTCs of Bermuda, but need one if identified as British citizens. On 30 April 2024, the code BMU was restored to Bermuda variant passports to facilitate such travel.

Special British passports
Diplomatic passports are issued to British diplomats and high-ranking government officials and their dependents. Official passports are issued to other British government officials such as administrative and technical staff and their dependents.

King's Messenger passports were issued to diplomatic couriers who transport government documents. Since 2014, these have been replaced by standard diplomatic passports with an observation.

Collective (also known as group) passports are issued to defined groups of 5 to 50 individuals who are British citizens under the age of 18 for travel together to certain countries in the Schengen Area, such as a group of school children on a school trip.

Emergency passports are issued to British nationals by British diplomatic missions across the world. They may also be issued to Commonwealth citizens in countries where their country of nationality does not have diplomatic representation.

European Union passports
Before the UK withdrew from the EU on 31 January 2020, British citizens, British Overseas Territories citizens of Gibraltar and British subjects with right of abode in the UK were considered to be UK nationals for the purposes of European Union law and therefore EU citizens. As a result, passports issued to these nationals were considered to be EU passports, and before 2019 their covers displayed the title "European Union". British passports with EU status facilitated access to consular assistance from another European Union member state.

British nationals who were EU citizens (except those connected only to the Crown Dependencies) had the right to live and work freely in the European Economic Area and Switzerland until the Brexit transition period ended on 31 December 2020. Since then, they continue to enjoy visa-free travel to the Schengen Area for short stays, as well as the right to live and work in the Republic of Ireland, as British citizens are not treated as aliens under Irish law. Common Travel Area arrangements for visa-free travel remain unchanged.

Other classes of British nationals were not considered to be EU citizens, but also had and continue to enjoy visa-free travel to the Schengen Area for short stays.

Outside cover
Current issue British passports are described as navy blue although many observers have described the colour as black.

The blue passport sports the coat of arms of the United Kingdom emblazoned in the centre of the front cover. "BRITISH PASSPORT" is inscribed above the coat of arms, and the name of the issuing government is inscribed below (e.g. "UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND" or "TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS"). Where a British national is connected to a territory that is no longer under British sovereignty (e.g. BN(O) in Hong Kong), the issuing government is the United Kingdom. The biometric passport symbol appears at the bottom of the front cover. The rear cover of blue passports are also embossed with the floral emblems of England (Tudor rose), Northern Ireland (Shamrock), Scotland (Scottish thistle) and Wales (daffodil).

Burgundy passports issued by the UK, Gibraltar and the Crown Dependencies follow a different format, as they are based on the EU common model. The words "UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND" (+ "GIBRALTAR" where relevant) or "BRITISH ISLANDS" (+ the Dependency's name) are inscribed above the coat of arms, whilst the word "PASSPORT" is inscribed below. The biometric passport symbol appears at the bottom of the front cover. On passports issued before 29 March 2019, the words "EUROPEAN UNION" were printed at the top of the booklet.

Function-related passports
Besides the ordinary passports described above, special passports are issued to government officials from which diplomatic status may (diplomatic passport) or may not (official passport) be conferred by the text on the cover. Until 2014 a special passport was available for a Queen's Messenger, which had on its cover the text "QUEEN’S MESSENGER – COURRIER DIPLOMATIQUE" below the coat of arms and the text "BRITISH PASSPORT" above it. Despite the red cover, the internal pages continued to resemble those of the old blue passport.

Each passport cover is detailed in the gallery below.

Inside cover
UK-issued British passports issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II contain on their inside cover the following words in English:

"Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary."

Following the accession of King Charles III, the request reads the following in English:

"His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary." In older passports, more specific reference was made to "Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs", originally including the name of the incumbent.

In mid-July 2023, the Home Office announced that the British passports issued in King Charles's name were being issued, and the new passports will now carry the words: "His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty...".

In non-UK issue passports, the request is made by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of the territory in "the Name of Her Britannic Majesty". As with UK-issued passports, following the accession of King Charles III, the request will change to “His Britannic Majesty”.

Information page
British passports issued by HM Passport Office include the following data on the information page:

 * Photograph of the owner/holder (digital image printed on page)
 * Type (P)
 * Code of issuing state (GBR)
 * Passport number
 * Surname (see note below regarding titles)
 * Given names
 * Nationality (the class of British nationality, such as "British Citizen" or "British Overseas Citizen", or if issued on behalf of a Commonwealth country, "Commonwealth Citizen" )
 * Date of birth
 * Sex (Gender)
 * Place of birth (only the city or town is listed, even if born outside the UK; places of birth in Wales are entered in Welsh upon request )
 * Date of issue
 * Authority
 * Date of expiry
 * Machine-readable zone starting with P< GBR

The items are identified by text in English and French (e.g., "Given names/Prénoms"). Translations into Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Spanish are written on page 5 (Series C), with the English and French translation also being included (e.g, "Surname / Cyfenw / Cinneadh / Sloinne / Nom / Apellidos"). Passports issued until March 2019 were translated into all official EU languages.

According to the British government, the current policy of using noble titles on passports requires that the applicant provides evidence that the title is included in Burke's Peerage, or the Lord Lyon has recognised a feudal barony. If accepted (and if the applicant wishes to include the title), the correct form is for the applicant to include the territorial designation as part of their surname (Surname of territorial designation e.g. Smith of Inverglen). The official observation would then show the holder's full name, followed by their feudal title e.g. The holder is John Smith, Baron of Inverglen.

Official Observations page
Certain British passports are issued with printed endorsements on the Official Observations page, usually in upper case (capital letters). They form part of the passport when it is issued, as distinct from immigration stamps subsequently entered in the visa pages. Some examples are:

 * The Holder has right of abode in the United Kingdom

 * British Subjects with the right of abode (usually from Ireland) have this endorsement in their passports. Between 1973 and 1982, this observation was also in passports issued to British Subjects with a connection to the UK (now British Citizens).

 * The Holder is entitled to readmission in the United Kingdom

 * British Overseas Citizens who have been granted indefinite leave to enter or remain after 1968 retain this entitlement for life as their ILR is not subject to the two-year expiration rule, and their passports are accordingly issued with this endorsement.

 * The Holder is subject to control under the Immigration Act 1971

 * British nationals without the right of abode in the UK will have this endorsement in their passports unless they have been granted indefinite leave to enter or remain. However, even though a BN(O) passport does not entitle the holder the right of abode in the UK, this endorsement was not found in BN(O) passports issued before 2020.

 * The Holder is not entitled to benefit from European Union provisions relating to employment or establishment

 * British citizens from Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man without a qualifying connection to the United Kingdom by descent or residency for more than five years previously had this endorsement in their passports. Moreover, British Overseas Citizens and British Nationals (Overseas) would have the same endorsement if they renewed their BOC/BN(O) passport after 29 March 2019. This observation ceased to be used from 1 January 2021.

 * In accordance with the United Kingdom immigration rules the holder of this passport does not require an entry certificate or visa to visit the United Kingdom

 * This endorsement is found in BN(O) passports, and accordingly holders of BN(O) passports are allowed to enter the UK as a visitor without an entry certificate or visa for up to six months per entry.

 * The Holder is also a British National (Overseas)

 * British citizens who also possess BN(O) status may have this endorsement in their passports to signify their additional status, with the holder’s consent.

 * The Holder (of this passport has Hong Kong permanent identity card no XXXXXXXX which states that the holder) has the right of abode in Hong Kong

 * British Nationals (Overseas) (BN(O)s) have this endorsement in their passports, as registration as a BN(O) before 1997 required the applicant to hold a valid Hong Kong permanent identity card, which guaranteed the holder's right of abode in Hong Kong.
 * Such persons would continue to have right of abode or right to land in Hong Kong after the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 under the Immigration Ordinance. This endorsement is also found in a British citizen passport when the holder has both British citizenship and BN(O) status (at the holder’s request).
 * Before the Hong Kong Act 1985 and Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 were enacted, nationals of Hong Kong were entitled to British Dependent Territory Citizen status (British Subject CUKC before 1983). The observation then merely read:
 * The Holder has right of abode in Hong Kong.

 * The Holder is or The Holder is also known as ...

 * This endorsement is found in passports where the holder uses or retains another professional, stage or religious name and is known by it "for all purposes", or has a recognised form of address, academic, feudal or legal title (e.g. Doctor, European Engineer, Queen's Counsel, Professor, Minister of Religion) regarded as important identifiers of an individual. The styling 'Dr ...', 'Professor ...' or similar is recorded here, or the alternative professional/stage/religious name, usually on request by the passport holder. For example, Cliff Richard's birth name was Harry Webb, and the passport Observations page would read:

"The Holder is also known as Cliff Richard"

 * This endorsement is also found in the passport of persons with Peerage titles, members of the Privy Council, holders of knighthoods and other decorations, etc, to declare the holder's title.

 * Also, this endorsement is found if the passport holder's name is too long to fit within the 30-character limits (including spaces) on the passport information page; applies to each line reserved for the surname and the first given name including any middle name(s). In this scenario the holder's full name will be written out in full on the Observations page. According to the British passport agency guidelines, a person with a long or multiple given name, which cannot fit within the 30-character passport information page limits, should enter as much of the first given name, followed by the initials of all middle names (if any). The same advice applies to a long or multiple surname. The holder's full name is then shown printed out in its entirety on the passport Observations page. For example, Kiefer Sutherland's birth name would read on the passport information page:

Surname: "Sutherland"

Given names: "Kiefer W F D G R"
 * Observations page:

"The Holder is Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland"

 * The holder's name in Chinese Commercial Code: XXXX XXXX XXXX
 * This endorsement was found in BN(O) and Hong Kong British Dependent Territories Citizen passports held by BN(O)s and British Dependent Territories Citizens with a connection to Hong Kong who have a Chinese name recognised by the Hong Kong Immigration Department before the handover. After the handover, British passports issued in Hong Kong can only be issued at the British Consulate-General, and this endorsement is no longer in use. (See also: Chinese commercial code)

 * Holder is a member of His Britannic Majesty's Diplomatic Service
 * Holder is a spouse/dependant of a member of His Britannic Majesty's Diplomatic Service

 * This endorsement is found in British passports held by people who are dependants or spouses of British diplomats.

Multiple passports
People who have valid reasons may be allowed to hold more than one passport booklet. This applies usually to people who travel frequently on business, and may need to have a passport booklet to travel on while the other is awaiting a visa for another country. Some Muslim-majority countries including Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen do not issue visas to visitors if their passports bear a stamp or visa issued by Israel, as a result of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In that case, a person can apply for a second passport to avoid travel issues. Reasons and supporting documentation (such as a letter from an employer) must be provided.

In addition, a person who has multiple types of British nationality is allowed to hold different variants of British passports under different statuses at the same time. For example, a British Overseas Territories citizen with right of abode in Gibraltar that also held British citizenship would be allowed both a Gibraltar variant British passport as well as a standard British passport.

Monarch
The King, Charles III, is not required to hold a passport because passports are issued in his name and on his authority, thus making it superfluous for him to hold one. All other members of the royal family, however, including the heir apparent William, Prince of Wales, do require passports.

Visa requirements

Visa requirements for British citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of the United Kingdom. As of May 2024, holders of regular British Citizen passports had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 192 countries and territories, ranking the British Citizen passport 3rd in the world in terms of travel freedom (tied with the Belgian and Danish passports) according to the Henley Passport Index. Additionally, Arton Capital's Passport Index ranked the British Citizen passport 5th in the world in terms of travel freedom, with a visa-free score of 174 (tied with the Singaporean, Czech and South Korean passports), as of 12 May 2024.

Visa requirements for other categories of British nationals, namely British Nationals (Overseas), British Overseas Citizens, British Overseas Territories Citizens, British Protected Persons, and British Subjects, are different.

Cost
The cost of a British passport is between free and £112, for an adult (16 and over) 50-page frequent traveler passport who apply by paper form. The standard adult application fee is £88.50 (online), or £100.50 (by paper form).

Foreign travel statistics
According to the Foreign travel advice provided by the British Government (unless otherwise noted) these are the numbers of British visitors to various countries per annum in 2015 (unless otherwise noted):

Foreign travel statistics

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black flames

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 02:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Black flames
Highly original theory with no source cited. 202.156.2.74 16:16, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article terrifies me. Sdedeo 17:05, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Black flames" + "creation of the universe" get 13 google hits, none of which describes this concept. -- BD2412 talk 18:53, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unscholarly unverifiable nonsense. DreamGuy 20:43, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; OR that just looks like a re-wording of the Big Bang theory and Dark Matter Tonywalton | Talk 22:00, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Khaosinfire, the author, has placed a rather plaintive query as to why it's been VfDed on the article's talk page; I've pointed to WP:NOT, explained what OR means and encouraged them to discuss further here if they wish to defend it, so can we go easy on the article-bashing? Tonywalton  | Talk 22:00, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I didn't mean to make fun of the article... I just mean... imagine if it were true... doesn't the phrase "black flame" freak you out? I can imagine some horrible monster sneaking up behind you chanting "black flame... black flame..." Now I've gone and freaked myself out again. Sdedeo 04:01, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * There are much scarier cosmologies than that. 192.18.1.5 Tonywalton (not logged in)

 * Delete. OR. Boxclocke 22:05, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as original research. Could also be speedy-deleted as patent nonsense. --Carnildo 22:11, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete OR. -- Etacar11   23:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Summary
Drawing (artist unknown) of Swedish pikemen and musketeers as seen in the early 18th century.

Booksource: Karoliner by Alf Åberg and Göte Göransson.

Licensing
== Fair use for Allotment system == The image Pikemen_musketeers.jpg is being linked here; though the picture is originally copyright I (-- Elisson • Talk ) feel it is covered by fair use because:

 * 1) No free or public domain images are available that demonstrates the tactic as good as this drawing.
 * 2) The use of the picture in the article adds significantly to the understanding of why the allotment system was such a successful system.
 * 3) The drawing is relatively simple and very similar drawings  are available, lessening the uniqueness of this particular drawing.
 * 4) The use of the picture in the article does not lessen the value of the work in any way.
 * 5) The copy taken of the drawing is of inferior quality (even if large).

Fair use for Battalion (Sweden)
The image Pikemen_musketeers.jpg is being linked here; though the picture is originally copyright I (-- Malin Randström • Malin Randström ) feel it is covered by fair use because:

 * 1) No free or public domain images are available that demonstrates the tactics of a battalion at battle during early 18th century as good as this drawing.
 * 2) The use of the picture in the article adds significantly to the understanding of why Swedish formations such as battalions still kept on using 6 meter longs pikes and the general tactics that was adopted by Gustav II Adolf. The article describes three known formations and the 6 men deep formation with two lines of pikers in the middle is an essential part to illustrate the effectiveness.
 * 3) The drawing is relatively simple and very similar drawings  are available, lessening the uniqueness of this particular drawing.
 * 4) The use of the picture in the article does not lessen the value of the work in any way.
 * 5) The copy taken of the drawing is of inferior quality (even if large).

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Wang Yuyan

Wang Yuyan (born May 1966) is a Chinese politician serving as head of the Organization Department of the Qinghai organization of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang was born in Xiangcheng County, Henan province. She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1986. In 2008, she became party chief of Xiangcheng City (county-level), in December 2011 she was named deputy party chief of Jiyuan, then acting mayor (Jiyuan is a county-level division directly governed by the province; when Wang served here, she was considered an official of full prefecture-level rank). In March 2015 she was named party chief of Jiyuan. On July 31, 2015, she was named party chief of Yuncheng. In May 2017, Wang was transferred to Qinghai to serve on the provincial party standing committee and the head of the party organization department there.

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Zacharias Ursinus

Zacharias Ursinus (18 July 1534 – 6 May 1583) was a sixteenth-century German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate, serving both at the University of Heidelberg and the College of Wisdom (Collegium Sapientiae). He is best known as the principal author and interpreter of the Heidelberg Catechism.

Origins and early education
At age fifteen he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, boarding for the next seven years with Philipp Melanchthon, the erudite successor of Martin Luther. Like many young scholars of that era he gave himself a Latin name, in his case one that was based on his German name, Baer, stemming from Latin ursus, meaning bear. Melanchthon admired young Ursinus for his intellectual gifts and his spiritual maturity, commending him to mentors throughout Europe. He was a lifelong protégé of the prominent imperial physician Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, who likewise hailed from Wrocław. Subsequently, Ursinus studied under Reformation scholars at Strasbourg, Basel, Lausanne, and Geneva. Sojourns in Lyon and Orléans gave him expertise in Hebrew, as well as studying under Jean Mercier in Paris. Returning to Wrocław he published a pamphlet on the sacraments, which aroused the ire of Lutherans who charged him with being more Reformed than Lutheran. The Wrocław opponents’ vitriolic reaction succeeded in driving him out of the city to Zürich, where he became friends with Zwingli's successor Heinrich Bullinger and the Italian Reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli.

In Heidelberg and Neustadt
In 1561, upon Vermigli's recommendation, Frederick III, Elector Palatine, appointed him professor in the Collegium Sapientiae at Heidelberg, where in 1562/63, having been commissioned by the Prince elector, he supplied the preliminary drafts for the Heidelberg Catechism and participated in the final revision of the document alongside other theologians and church leaders. Caspar Olevianus (1536–1587) was formerly asserted as a co-author of the document, though this theory has been largely discarded by modern scholarship. The death of the Elector Frederick and the accession of the Lutheran Ludwig IV in 1576, led to the removal of Ursinus, who occupied a professorial chair at the Casmirianum, a Reformed academy at Neustadt an der Weinstraße from 1578 until his death. He died, aged 48, in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.

Impact
His Works were published in 1587–1589, and a more complete edition by his son and two of his pupils, David Pareus and Quirinius Reuter, in 1612. Ursinus's collected catechical lectures (Het Schatboeck der verclaringhen over de Catechismus) was one of the most prominent theological handbooks among seventeenth century Reformed Christians and was especially popular in the Netherlands. Reformed German and Dutch immigrants to North America celebrated his legacy—especially his role in the creation of the Heidelberg Catechism. Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is a liberal arts college founded in 1869 in his name.

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Packard
Hey Matt. Sure, I'd definitely like to do some editing to the Packard page. It could use some work. I already have some (limited) knowledge of Packard, and I'll do some research in addition to what I already know. I'll probably start in a week or two when things are a little less hectic. And is Squishy on Wikipedia too? If he's not, he should be. He seems to know a lot about Lehigh. Jagvar 19:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five

Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five (also known as the Fantastic Freaks or simply Fantastic Five) was an old school hip hop group, best known for their 12" single, "Can I Get A Soul Clap" (1980) The group also appeared in the film Wild Style (1982) and recorded a song in 1994 with the Cold Crush Brothers and Terminator X which appeared on Terminator X's album, Super Bad. In 1998, they released Harlem World 1981, a recording of an MC battle between the Fantastic Five and Cold Crush Brothers, which had taken place in 1981.


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Waltham Land Trust

The Waltham Land Trust is a private, non-profit corporation that seeks to preserve open space in Waltham, Massachusetts. The trust currently sponsors many projects, including the protection of the grounds of the former Gaebler Children's Center.

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