List of Civil Wars
- Jacobite Rebellions (1715–16; 1719; 1745–46) - the last civil war in Great Britain
- Clifton Moor Skirmish, near Penrith (1745) - the last land battle on English soil
- Battle of Culloden (1746) - the last land battle in Great Britain
- The Troubles - in Northern Ireland, with some (terrorist) activity in Great Britain
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