British surnames
In the UK, surnames are passed down the generations and are the last part of a person’s name, e.g. ‘Miss Patricia Eleanor […]
In the UK, surnames are passed down the generations and are the last part of a person’s name, e.g. ‘Miss Patricia Eleanor […]
The Globe Theatre in London was built by Sam Wanamaker as a replica of the theatre in which Shakespeare’s plays were first […]
Traditional nursery rhymes such as ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill’, ‘Three blind mice’, and ‘Mary Mary quite contrary’ are examples […]
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-70) remains one of Britain’s most influential writers, producing Victorian classics such as ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘Great Expectations’ […]
The expression to “go by Shanks’s pony” means to walk. It usually implies that there is no other method of transport available, […]
Weather forecasts in the UK are often wrong, due to the ever-changing nature of the jet streams and ocean currents around our […]
“Words are mastered by meeting them, not by avoiding them.” This was Geraldine McCaughrean’s advice to publishers who favour children’s books with […]
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was born and lived most of his life in London and began writing his famous diary every day from […]
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-48) was part of a tragic but creative family in Yorkshire which produced what are now regarded as […]
The writer Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad (“V.S.”) Naipaul died in August 2018, just short of his 86th birthday. He was born in Trinidad […]
Cricket has been played in England as far back as the 1500s, but it was in the 1700s that it became established […]
Land’s End is on the south-western tip of mainland England in the county of Cornwall and the signpost featured above left will […]
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