Thinking of England most people mention Shakespeare, London, Baked Beans and Fish and Chips. Surely that's England, but it's also includes much more.
All along its history, England has been a green and pleasant land. It has been a sceptred isle and a nation of shopkeepers. It stood and stands as a beacon of democracy and a bastion of ideological freedom, as well as a crucible of empire and a cradle of class oppression. Magna Carta, the King James Bible and the welfare state were all dreamt up here, but then again so were beer bellies, Bovril and Mr. Bean. It's a nation of tea-tippling eccentrics and train spotters, of dog lovers and footy fanatics, of punk rockers, gardeners, gnome collectors, celebrity wannabees, superstar chefs, free-wheeling city traders, pigeon fanciers, cricket bores and part-time Morris Dancers.