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The culture of the United Kingdom is rich and varied, and has been influential on culture on a worldwide scale. It is a European country, and has many cultural links with its former colonies, particularly those that use the English language (the Anglosphere). The origins of the UK as a union of formerly separate nations has resulted in the preservation, to a greater or lesser extent, of distinctive cultures in each of the Home Nations.
BRITISH CULTURE |
ENGLAND |
Full English Breakfast |
Punting in England |
SCOTLAND |
Bagpipes of Scotland |
Scotch Whisky |
 ENGLISH CULTURE |
| Full English Breakfast |
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A full English breakfast – or traditional fry-up – is a traditional breakfast dish of England. Whilst weekday breakfasts in England often consist of a brief meal, the fry-up is commonly eaten in a leisurely fashion on Saturday or Sunday ...
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| Punting in England |
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The pleasure punts in use in England today were first built around 1860. Their use declined with the increase in motor boat traffic on English rivers, but has increased again as the tourist industry has grown in England ...
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| SCOTTISH CULTURE |
| Bagpipes of Scotland |
Music |
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Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of pipes and the bagpipe ...
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| Scotch Whisky |
Food & Drink |
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Scotch whisky, often called simply Scotch, is a distilled spirit made in Scotland. The name whisky is a transformation of the word usquebaugh, literally meaning the water of life. Single Malt, Blended and Vatted ...
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Detail of the Magna Carta
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