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.
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Kitty Fisher and Joshua Reynolds
The Courtesan & The Painter: Kitty Fisher and Joshua Reynolds. An unusual bond developed between Kitty, a famous 18th century courtesan and Sir Joshua Reynolds, celebrated painter, a bond that embodied the complexities of Georgian power, sexuality and artistic inspiration.
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Whatever happened to the nit nurse – A history of the School Medical Service in England from 1908
Certain memories still cause shudders in the post-Second World War generation of British schoolchildren. School dinner tapioca with a blob of jam in it. Being forced to perform gymnastics in the school hall in vest and pants. And then there was the regular visit of the medical specialist known as the Nit Nurse…
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Grierson of Lag
Scotland is a land of myths, ghosts, kelpies, spirits and the supernatural, The story of Robert Grierson of Lag, the 1st Baronet of Lag is one of the eeriest such tales. Robert Grierson is best known for his brutal treatment of the Presbyterian Scots of southwest Scotland during the “Killing Times” at the end of the seventeenth century…
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Bath, The Prince and The Pig
The story of the Prince and the Pig is the story of a young prince named Bladud. Falling ill with leprosy during a trip to Greece, Bladud returned to England and working as a swineherd during which time he discovered a spring, the healing waters of which cured his leprosy. In gratitude, Bladud founded the town of Bath in 836BC/BCE…