This Britain
Germany's bombs set Britain's cities alight, but we carried on
The first raid of the Blitz saw bombing for over eight hours. After a second, two days later, 850 people had died.
Inside This Britain
Kind hearts and cornets in the battle of the brass bands
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Nina Lakhani: Once there were 20,000 across the country. Yesterday the remaining few sounded off for the cup final
The Blitz: Survivors' stories
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Jammed on Underground platforms, putting out fires, digging families out of air-raid shelters, waking to find an unexploded bomb in the garden, getting separated from siblings: ten recount their experiences
September Song: Celebrating the Queen of Months
Saturday, 4 September 2010
The summer's gone and everything is coming back to life. Michael Bywater writes in praise of September.
Minor British Institutions: Cockney rhyming slang
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Cor blimey! Cockney rhyming slang may have originated as a cryptolect to confound outsiders, occasionally including the law. If so, it failed, as most of it is widely understood far beyond Bow Bells.
Sun shines on festival revellers
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
More than a million revellers were thought to have attended the Notting Hill Carnival yesterday, making it Europe's largest street festival, which has been held every August bank holiday since 1966.
Bank holiday Britain
Monday, 30 August 2010
Desperate not to miss an important cricket match between his village and its local rival, it was the liberal politician and banker Sir John Lubbock who introduced the August bank holiday in 1871. 139 years later, up and down the country, the end-of-summer weekend break is the preserve of a far more eclectic range of hobbyists and sports people.
Croydon – from concrete hell to cutting edge?
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Simon Tait: A new arts and entertainment initiative aims to do for the unlovely borough what the Guggenheim did for Bilbao
Minor British Institutions: The pillar box
Saturday, 28 August 2010
Once they'd invented the postage stamp, it took 12 years for the authorities to work out that the convenient pre-payment of postage could be best exploited by the free collection of mail in secure, prominent containers.
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