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The everyday British words that mean something different, or nothing at all, in American English — from pavement and boot to pants…

Large out-of-town retailers selling plants, garden equipment and a great deal else — and, improbably, one of Britain's most popular weekend destinations.

The two sets of national exams that structure British secondary education: GCSEs at sixteen across many subjects, A-Levels at eighteen across just…

Britain's spirit: juniper-flavoured, catastrophic in the eighteenth century, respectable by the nineteenth, and the subject of an enormous craft revival since 2010.

Britain's largest music festival, held on a Somerset dairy farm most summers: 200,000 people, five days, and a near-certainty of mud.

State schools that select pupils by an exam at eleven — abolished in most of England, retained in a few counties, and…

A savoury brown sauce made from meat juices, poured generously over roast dinners, chips, pies and — in the North — almost…

The time standard set at the Greenwich meridian, from which the world's time zones are measured — and the reason the prime…

A bakery chain with over 2,500 branches selling sausage rolls, pasties and cheap coffee, and occupying a place in British affection out…

The executive branch: the prime minister, the Cabinet and the civil service, drawn from and accountable to Parliament rather than separate from…

The foliate face carved into hundreds of British churches — a head sprouting leaves from its mouth and eyes, of uncertain age…