Red phone boxes in the wild, seaside postcards pinned to kitchen corkboards, the unmistakable rustle of the Wine Gums Juicies packet as the car journey begins… There are certain objects, concepts and ...
Watch the replay of our live stream and chat of the Living English panel on the future of English culture in Quebec, from NDG's Crowley Arts Centre. CBC Montreal's Mike Finnerty and Debra Arbec ...
RUGBY, England—Stuart Field raised his first flags in July: the English red cross of St. George and also a smattering of the British red, white and blue, hanging them from his hometown’s streetlights.
The question of national identity in Ireland is one which has a long and complicated history. Beginning in the 12th century, with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, the English colonial ...
England used to be the heart of the world’s ruling empire. It imposed its self-serving version of “peace” everywhere. Nothing’s left now but culture. I hated myself for loving The Crown — the Netflix ...
At first glance, it might look like Britain drives on the “wrong” side of the road—but the truth goes much deeper than habit ...
The British are a funny lot. In the most literal sense, obviously. The birthplace of Vic and Bob, Morecambe and Wise, Julia Davis and Sara Pascoe is, pound for pound, arguably the funniest nation on ...
We’ve inherited words and phrases surviving from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and sometimes, even earlier. Photo from Wikimedia. As a retired English teacher, I admit it: my language has ...