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Britain's radio landscape: BBC stations organised by genre rather than region, a strong commercial sector, and listening figures that have barely fallen…

The prestige accent of England — "BBC English" or "the Queen's English" — spoken by a small and shrinking minority, and no…

The cast-iron pillar boxes on British streets, painted a distinctive red since 1874, and each carrying the royal cypher of the monarch…

The nine statistical regions England is divided into for government and data — and the informal ones, like the North and the…

The 11th of November, when Britain observes two minutes' silence for its war dead and wears a red poppy in the weeks…

A contact sport invented at an English school, played in two separate codes — union and league — divided by rules, geography…

The 215-mile river running through London to the North Sea: England's defining waterway, its historic highway, and once its open sewer.

The four centuries from AD 43 to around 410 when most of Britain was a Roman province, leaving behind roads, towns, baths…

The reigning House of Windsor: King Charles III, his heirs and their close relatives, who carry out ceremonial and charitable duties as…

Britain's weekly ritual meal: roast meat, roast potatoes, vegetables, gravy and Yorkshire pudding, eaten at lunchtime on a Sunday with family or…