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| Fidel Castro welcomes the Manic Street Preachers to a British Council concert at Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre, the first performance by a Western rock band in Cuba. |
| We reopen in Tripoli after an absence of 28 years and in Tehran after 20 years. |
| Our LearnEnglish website goes online and receives 50,000 visits and 500,000 page views a month. |
| The Education UK brand is launched in more than 20 countries. |
| Our footballculture.net website wins the Yahoo! Best Sports and Recreation Site of the Year award. |
| The Selector, a syndicated weekly radio show featuring ground-breaking British contemporary music, reaches 35 million people in 17 countries. |
| After the 9/11 attacks in the USA we launch Connecting Futures aimed at building trust and understanding between young people in the UK and the Arab and wider Muslim world |
| The British Council network in Russia expands to 16 centres across the length of the country. |
| The in2english website for teachers and learners of English in China reaches nearly one million users. |
| Improved video-conferencing helps us organise international discussions about the social dimensions of science. |
| Shakespeare returns to Iran and in Paris 225,000 people queue to see Constable – Selected by Lucian Freud. |
| The Spending Review recommends a 9.6 per cent increase in our grant in aid over three years. |
| The first major exhibition of contemporary UK art since the Islamic revolution of 1979 takes place in Tehran. |
| In the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, we distribute 20 tons of donated books to universities in Iraq. |
| We launch InterAction, a leadership development programme for emerging and community leaders in 19 African countries. |
| The Think UK public diplomacy campaign challenges outmoded Chinese stereotypes of the UK |
| As we celebrate our seventieth anniversary, ‘mother’ is rated the most beautiful word in English in a global poll. |
| We launch ZeroCarbonCity, our most ambitious science initiative to date, which aims to involve eight million people in climate change activities over two years. |
| We open and expand university resource centres in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| Our Global Gateway portal facilitates more than 2,000 links between schools in the UK and other countries in its first year. |
| After supporting more than 3,200 links in 48 countries, our Higher Education Links programme celebrates its 25th anniversary. |
| Terror attacks in London on 7 July make our work of building intercultural understanding even more important. |
| The Carter report calls greater coordination in the UK’s public diplomacy effort. |
| We reorganise our international network into 13 regions. |
| We announce plans to reduce grant funding in Europe by 30 per cent. Two-thirds of the money will go to the Near and Middle East. |
| We begin Connecting Classrooms, a five-year project that aims to links 1.3 million children in schools in the UK and 19 sub-Saharan countries. |
| British Council offices in Gaza and Ramallah are attacked by an angry mob. |
| We close in Peru and reopen in Algeria. We start to shut down our regional network in the UK. |
| British Council programmes are reckoned to reach more than 100 million people worldwide. |
| Martin Davidson succeeds David Green as Chief Executive. |
| The Comprehensive Spending Review freezes our grant-in-aid for three years. |
| Operating in Russia becomes increasingly difficult as the authorities step up the pressure on the British Council. |
| We close our offices in Russia outside Moscow. |
| The Global School Partnerships Programme hits its target of 1,100 schools, meaning that over a million children in the UK have been involved in an international link with support from the British Council. |
| We commit ourselves to meeting the ISO 14001 standard for environment management in the UK by the end of the year. |
| A three-month public consultation on our work in the arts spurs a commitment to renewal after several years’ fall-off in arts activity. |
| We celebrate our 75th anniversary. |
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