How to Be English by Boyle, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents About the Book About the Author Dedication Title Page Introduction Spring

1. Alfred the Great 2. Allotments 3. Apologies 4. The Beatles 5. Beer and ale 6. Bell-ringing 7. Big Ben 8. Canterbury 9. Cotton 10. Daffodils 11. The East India Company 12. The English Hymnal 13. Francophobia 14. Full English 15. Hedges 16. Henry V 17. Heroic failure 18. Jokes 19. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 20. King James Bible 21. Ley lines 22. Mini 23. Pigeon-fanciers 24. ‘Sea fever’ 25. Semi-detached 26. Titanic

Summer

27. ‘Adlestrop’ 28. Bank holidays 29. Brighton pier 30. Capability Brown 31. Clive of India 32. Cricket 33. Dunkirk 34. FA Cup finals 35. Fairies 36. Glastonbury Tor 37. ‘Jerusalem’ 38. Morris dancing 39. National Trust 40. Nelson 41. News from Nowhere 42. Oak trees 43. Outlaws 44. Peasants’ Revolt 45. Pride and Prejudice 46. Punch and Judy 47. Seaside 48. Strawberries and cream 49. ‘Where the bee sucks’ 50. Wimbledon 51. The Wind in the Willows

Autumn

52. Bakewell tarts 53. Battle of Hastings 54. Boffins 55. Bowler hats 56. Byron 57. Cardigans 58. Charge of the Light Brigade 59. Country churchyards 60. Crumpets 61. Curry 62. Ealing comedies 63. Fish and chips 64. Flying Scotsman 65. Gilbert and Sullivan 66. Guy Fawkes 67. Harrods 68. ‘Heart of Oak’ 69. Individualism 70. Jarrow March and the Pilgrimage of Grace 71. Last Night of the Proms 72. London Underground 73. Meat pies 74. Melancholy 75. Old Trafford 76. Pinstripe suits 77. Raincoats 78. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding 79. School dinners 80. Tabloid headlines 81. Umbrellas 82. Women’s Institutes

Winter

83. BBC 84. Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna 85. Cloth caps 86. Coal 87. Cockles and whelks 88. Dick Whittington 89. Drake’s Drum 90. Ghosts 91. Hadrian’s Wall 92. Marmite 93. Pantomime dames 94. Pubs 95. Roly-poly pudding 96. Teatime 97. Toad-in-the-hole 98. The weather 99. Wool 100. A Christmas Carol

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