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How to be English

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Featured in this book are such established English cultural behemoths as the Beatles, Big Ben and the Last Night of the Proms alongside less celebrated quirks such as meat pies and the working man's haven, the allotment. Here we celebrate the bell-ringers and Morris dancers, bowler hats ('the symbol of respectable Englishness') and cardigans ('symbol of staid middle-class solidarity'). We examine the brutality of Punch and Judy and our historic love of fairies, once so much a part of the English psyche that they were described as 'the British religion'.

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ISBN: 9780224100977
Publication date: 16th July 2015
Author: David Boyle
Publisher: Square Peg an imprint of Vintage
Format: Hardback
Primary Genre Non-Fiction Books of the Month
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