Culture
* Principal universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College.
* Famous people: | ||
writers - | William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, William Golding, J R R Tolkien | |
artists - | Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, J M W Turner, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore | |
composers - | Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Henry Purcell | |
scientists - | Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Ernest Rutherford | |
philosophers - | Bertrand Russell |
* Cuisine: roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, fish and chips, afternoon tea.
* World Heritage sites: Stonehenge, Tower of London, Canterbury Cathedral.