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The British name for the figure who brings presents on Christmas Eve — originally a personification of festive cheer, now largely merged…

Walking the uplands of northern England — a distinct British tradition with its own vocabulary, its own guidebooks, and a national habit…

Battered deep-fried white fish served with thick-cut chips, bought from a takeaway shop and eaten with salt and vinegar. Britain's best known…

Britain's gardening culture: a nation of small back gardens, allotments and flower shows, and some of the most influential garden design in…

Association football, called soccer only in America: Britain's dominant sport, invented here, and closer to a tribal identity than a pastime.

The pursuit of foxes with hounds and riders — banned in England and Wales in 2004 after one of the most divisive…

The Yorkshire-born conspirator caught guarding the gunpowder beneath Parliament in 1605, and burned in effigy on British bonfires every November since.

The British summer village fair: a field, a marquee, a tombola, a cake competition and a great deal of standing about in…