Culture UK
Who are the British? Do they really drink tea, eat roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and never leave home without an umbrella? Find out more about true Brits; past and present, myth and legend, fact and fiction.
Pace Egging
Pace-Egging is an ancient Lancashire custom once widespread, and is still to be found in parts of the county today…
The Folklore Year – Easter
The Folklore Year – traditional folklore and culture of Britain, events taking place every year at Easter
Food in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s
Food in Britain changed tremendously in the 15 years from the end of rationing to the start of the 1970s…
Spring Heeled Jack
Spring Heeled Jack terrorised Victorian society, but who was this 19th century Batman?
Afternoon Tea
Afternoon tea, a very English custom! Read the history behind this most English tradition; china tea cups, scones, jam and clotted cream…
The 1960s The Decade that Shook Britain
If the Fifties were in black and white, then the Sixties were in Technicolor. For many, the ‘Swinging Sixties’ remain…
The Kelpie
The kelpie is a shape-changing aquatic spirit of Scottish legend. But beware – these are malevolent spirits, hoping to lure…
