When families and loved ones gather 'round the table on Christmas Day, dinner will take endless forms. But for anyone with English roots, or who has let Charles Dickens and Victorian traditions shape ...

While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, older British holiday ...

While Christmas is celebrated all over the world, there are some differences in the way people in the the U.S. and the U.K. celebrate the holiday. Take dinner, for instance: A lot of Americans usually ...

Elizabeth David, perhaps the most celebrated English food writer of the past century, enjoys a place in British cooking and culture akin to that of Julia Child in the United States. Now a new cookbook ...

London’s first and most storied five-star hotel — partners for the first time with heritage charity English Heritage. The ...

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“Panto has everything theatrical – song, dance, verse, slapstick, soliloquy, audience participation, spectacle, cross- dressing and a good plot, strong on morality and romance – what more could you ...

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