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.
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, writing as George Eliot was a highly acclaimed Victorian novelist, author of ‘Middlemarch’, ‘Silas Marner’, ‘Daniel Deronda’…
A Georgian Christmas
How was Christmas celebrated in the Georgian and Regency era? Perhaps we can find out from the works of Jane Austen…
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
No Vote, No Census – 1911 Census Protests
As part of their Votes for Women campaign, suffragettes decided to target the 1911 Census…
