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Lewis-Stempel's book Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field won the Wainwright Prize and was also short-listed for BBC Countryfile 's Country Book of the Year 2014. In 2016 The Running Hare was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times best seller, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Wainwright Prize, The Richard Jefferies ...
This England is an apolitical celebration of England's people, places, art and culture. Content focuses on England's past and present, with regular feature strands including “Historic Homes of England”; “The Prime Ministers” which looks back on Britain's former PMs and“Explore England” which provides a travel itinerary for pockets ...
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A talented naturalist from schooldays, Moore was an early campaigner for the conservation of everything connected with the rural scene. Most of his books had a rural setting, and long before the environment came to mainstream media attention, he wrote about some of the negative effects of technological advances on the countryside and rural life.
As of 2024, the United Kingdom has submitted twenty films for Oscar consideration, with three of them getting Oscar nominations, The Zone of Interest became the first British co-production film to earn a nomination for Best International Feature Film and Best Picture simultaneously, winning the former as the first film to win in that category.
"If, then, the Pelican History was a success, and much of it was, it owed little to a conscious attempt at coherence imposed from above. Coherence came rather from the common understanding of the English national past (the 'Whig' interpretation of history in the strict sense) which was diffused through all levels of the cultural community – writers, teachers, readers.
[146] [147] Adventure magazines became quite popular, especially those published by DC Thomson; the publisher sent observers around the country to talk to boys and learn what they wanted to read about. The story line in magazines and cinema that most appealed to boys was the glamorous heroism of British soldiers fighting wars that were exciting ...
The country's official name thus became "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". England, as part of the UK, joined the European Economic Community in 1973, which became the European Union in 1993. The UK left the EU in 2020. There is a movement in England to create a devolved English Parliament. This would give England a ...