Who are the British? Do they really drink tea, eat roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and never leave home without an umbrella? Find out more about true Brits; past and present, myth and legend, fact and fiction.
If Britain taught India how to play cricket, India perhaps returned the favour by teaching the British how to enjoy a hot Indian curry…
‘Spring forward, fall back’. In spring, the clocks go forward one hour and British Summer Time begins. In autumn (fall), the clocks go back as British Summer Time comes to an end and the UK reverts back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). But when and why did this process begin?
Articles and features on British seasonal celebrations, including Christmas, New Year and Easter.
Dundee is famously renowned for ‘Jute, Jam and Journalism’ and in particular, comics like the Beano and the Dandy…
The Folklore Year – traditional folklore and culture of Britain, events taking place every year in November
Tragically killed in action in France seven days prior to the Armistice in 1918, Wilfred Owen has become one of the nation’s most loved war poets…
Eh by gum! Yorkshire is the largest county in England with a very distinct dialect…
Alfred Lord Tennyson is one of the most famous English poets of all time, with a career spanning 62 years…
The history of gin, also known as Mother’s Ruin, once used as medicine for curing gout and indigestion!
Guest writer John Owen Theobald meets the Ravenmaster of the Tower of London, and discovers just what it means to hold the fate of the kingdom of Britain in his hands…