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Dinner, Tea or Supper?

Ask a British person what they call the evening meal and you will learn where they are from and, probably,…

The red telephone box is, with the double decker bus and the Union Flag, one of the three objects that…

Rugby began, by tradition, at Rugby School in 1823 when a pupil named William Webb Ellis picked up the ball…

British police officers are called bobbies after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829.…

The British education system differs from the American one in structure, vocabulary and — most significantly — in how early…

The stiff upper lip is the British ideal of composure: enduring difficulty without complaint, without visible distress, and without troubling…

Class in Britain is not primarily about money. A wealthy self-made businessman and an impoverished aristocrat are not remotely the…

The weather is the single most discussed subject in Britain, and the country's reputation for it is only half deserved.…

British social rules are mostly unwritten, largely unspoken, and enforced by an elaborate system of atmosphere. The organising principle behind…

The British queue. They queue for buses, for tills, for cash machines, for toilets, for anything at all where more…