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History and Traditions of England

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A variety of posts on different aspects of England's history, traditions, and culture.

• Added on: Aug 12th, 2009
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: neverdespairgirl
• Listed in: History Cultural
• Tags: England history english history english culture english traditions history of england

Recent Posts

• Fireworks, Bonfires and Guys – celebrating Guy Fawkes’ Night

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 19:53 in anniversaries, yearly events, kings and queens, traditions and folklore

  Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Guy Fawkes and his group of Catholic fellow-conspirators did their best to blow up Parliament on the 5th November 1605, on the day of the State Opening of Parliament. Their conspiracy, and the 36 barrels of gunpowder stash...

• Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 16:59 in London, yearly events, kings and queens

  What’s Guy Fawkes’ Night AKA Bonfire Night AKA Fireworks Night all about? If you are anywhere in the UK tonight, you are probably either at a Bonfire Night party, a Guy Fawkes’ Night bash, or hearing the cracks and bangs and seeing ...

• Almost immortal but less than human – fairies before Shakespeare

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 22:24 in Shakespeare, fairy, fairies, traditions and folklore

  Introduction to English fairies The presence in the world of fairies was not a new idea when Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or The Tempest. There was a long and rich English tradition of the fairy world for Shakespeare to draw on ...

• Dead photos – Victorian post-mortem photographs

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 19:26 in Photography, death and mourning

  Death, in Victorian England, was a grand and complicated business. There were many social rules in the classes who could afford it about mourning clothes, degrees of morning, and the length of time for which different mourning colours were to be worn...

• Sloe jelly – harvesting the hedgerows

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 17:37 in food and drink

  Using sloes and bullaces in English traditional cooking I posted previously a traditional sloe gin recipe, along with details of sloes, bullaces, and when to pick them. That article can be found here:  Sloe gin recipe But making sloe gin isn’t...

• How to make jelly

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 20:18 in food and drink, fruit, jelly, jam, preserving, jam making, preserving fruit, jelly making

  This article tells you what equipment you need, what you can do perfectly well without, and how to make the perfect, home-made jelly....

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