Culture UK

Metropolitan London has around 7,000 public houses – an average of 25 pubs per square mile! Some of these iconic watering holes are associated with important events in history…

Britain loves potatoes! Roasted, chipped, mashed – the humble potato has been a staple of our diet for hundreds of years, yet its humble origins lie far away, in the Andes…

Lucozade! Many baby boomers will remember this sparkling, lurid-coloured drink when the glass bottle still came wrapped in crinkly cellophane. This iconic tonic only appeared when a child was ill in bed and was bought from the chemist…

The Bakewell tart, with its characteristic white icing and cherry in the centre, is popular in cafes and homes all over Britain. But this is in fact not the original version as invented in Bakewell a few centuries ago.

To many Scots, the iconic and radioactive rust-coloured beverage IRN-BRU is not only a harbinger of home and comfort, but the only hangover cure that actually works!

From the original political parties the Tories and the Whigs, evolved two of the three main protaganists of the modern era, the Conservatives and the Liberals. But what happened to the Whigs you may ask…and who were they?

On 5 February 1811, George, Prince of Wales, was declared Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of George’s first acts as Regent was to throw a grand party…

The Courtesan & The Painter: Kitty Fisher and Joshua Reynolds. An unusual bond developed between Kitty, a famous 18th century courtesan and Sir Joshua Reynolds, celebrated painter, a bond that embodied the complexities of Georgian power, sexuality and artistic inspiration.