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 – June
The Folklore Year – traditional folklore and culture of Britain, events taking place every year in June
More Nursery Rhymes
Read about the origins of Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Ba Ba Black Sheep and Georgie Porgie.
Nursery Rhymes
British nursery rhymes including Little Jack Horner and Ring a Ring O’Roses
The Folklore Year – September
The Folklore Year – traditional folklore and culture of Britain, events taking place every year in September
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’…
