Culture UK
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.
The Folklore Year – March
The Folklore Year – traditional folklore and culture of Britain, events taking place every year in March
“Women and Children First!”
The Birkenhead Drill, or Women and Children First, as established by the silent heroes of HMS Birkenhead in 1852…
The Rollright Stones
The ancient Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire and the legend of the King and the Witch,,,
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, writing as George Eliot was a highly acclaimed Victorian novelist, author of ‘Middlemarch’, ‘Silas Marner’, ‘Daniel Deronda’…
Wassailing
Wassailing and Twelfth Night celebrations, house to house wassailing and apple tree wassailing…
A Georgian Christmas
How was Christmas celebrated in the Georgian and Regency era? Perhaps we can find out from the works of Jane…
Caedmon, The First English Poet
Caedmon is recognised as the first English poet composing his Hymn in the 7th century at Whitby Abbey, as told by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English people
