Fifty Quintessences of Englishness

from England, England by Julian Barnes

1. Royal Family
2. Big Ben/Houses of Parliament
3. Manchester United Football Club
4. Class System
5. Pubs
6. A Robin in the Snow
7. Robin Hood and his Merrie Men
8. Cricket
9. White Cliffs of Dover
10. Imperialism
11. Union Jack
12. Snobbery
13. God Save the King/Queen
14. BBC
15. West End
16. Times Newspaper
17. Shakespeare
18. Thatched Cottages
19. Cup of Tea/Devonshire Cream Tea
20. Stonehenge
21. Phlegm/Stiff Upper Lip
22. Shopping
23. Marmalade
24. Beefeaters/Tower of London
25. London Taxis
26. Bowler Hat
27. TV Classic Serials
28. Oxford/Cambridge
29. Harrods
30. Double-Decker Buses/Red Buses
31. Hypocrisy
32. Gardening
33. Perfidy/Untrustworthiness
34. Half-Timbering
35. Homosexuality
36. Alice in Wonderland
37. Winston Churchill
38. Marks & Spencer
39. Battle of Britain
40. Francis Drake
41. Trooping the Colour
42. Whingeing
43. Queen Victoria
44. Breakfast
45. Beer/Warm Beer
46. Emotional Frigidity
47. Wembley Stadium
48. Flagellation/Public Schools
49. Not Washing/Bad Undearwear
50. Magna Carta