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2000: a theme park; the Presbyterian church, Mortgage, National Insurance, Battle of Hastings, the Edinburgh Festival, Queens Speech, the Armada, the British Empire. 2001: Puritanism, the Suez Crisis, the North Sea Oil, invisible earning, fringe benefits, the Lord Chancellor, the Dominions, the Ulster Unionists, Collective Cabinet responsibility 2002 William the Conqueror, Common Law, the Principle of Precedence, Front Benchers, the City (of London), the Strangers Gallery, the Provisional IRA 2003 Henry VIII, Battle of Britain, Nationalization, Sinn Fein, Orange March, Eisteddfod, Comprehensive Schools, Open University, Tabloid, Life Peers. 2004 the Vikings, King James the 1st of England, the Church of England, Bloody Sunday, the Downing-street Declaration, property-owning democracy, the speaker, GCE A level, the official Secrets Act, local government and devolution 2005 William the Conqueror, Whigs and Tories, national lottery, Sunday newspapers, lay magistrates (justices of the peace), the IRA, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Press Complaints Commission, social security benefits, the Single European Act of 1986. 2006 the Great council (1265), the English Reformation, National Curriculum (1988), National Trust, barristers and solicitors,? House of Commons, the Conservative New Right, council house, NHS and its waiting list, the Treaty of Nice. 2008 The Hundred Years War King Henry VIII The Lake District social security benefits general election BBC TV Sinn Fein the Constitution cabinet collective responsibility visible and invisible trade 2009 the first-past-the-post shadow cabinet Privatization Queen Victoria Common law Anglo-Saxons Protestant Church English Channel tunnel Comprehensive Schools Quality papers The War of Hastings King James I of England The Constitution The Opposition The Education Act of 1944 BBC Licence The Ulster Unionists Trade Union Gordon Brown the Euro 2000 Questions: what are the main function of Parliament? (10%) what does the