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The culture of England is diverse. Owing to England's influential position within the United Kingdom it can sometimes be difficult to differentiate English culture from the culture of the United Kingdom as a whole. [1] However, tracing its origins back to the early Anglo-Saxon era, England cultivated an increasingly distinct cultural heritage.
The culture of the United Kingdom may also colloquially be referred to as British culture. Although British culture is a distinct entity, the individual cultures of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse. There have been varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness between these four cultures. [1] British literature is ...
Englishness: twentieth century popular culture and the forming of English identity. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2365-5. Harris, Stephen J. (2003). Race and Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Taylor & Francis. Helmreich, Anne (2002). The English garden and national identity. Modern architecture and cultural identity.
Due to immigration from other countries, not all people residing in England and the United Kingdom are White.According to the 2011 census in England, around 85.4% of residents are White (British, Irish, other European), 7.8% Asian (mainly South Asian), 3.5% Black, 2.3% are of mixed-race heritage, 0.4% Arab, and 0.6% identified as Other ethnicity, with a significantly higher non-white ...
State-funded schools are obliged by law to teach the National Curriculum; basic areas of learning include English literature, English language, mathematics, science, art & design, citizenship, history, geography, religious education, design & technology, computing, ancient & modern languages, music, and physical education. [223]
English and British culture overlap in complex ways. ... Cultural history of England ... Literature of England (21 C, ...
England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic immigration ...
History of literature in England (11 C, ... Pages in category "Cultural history of England" ... Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature;