How British Are You?
Author | : Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : British traits |
ISBN | : |
The legacy of British traits in America is deeper and more significant than we know.
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Author | : Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : British traits |
ISBN | : |
The legacy of British traits in America is deeper and more significant than we know.
Author | : Henry Dillon |
Publisher | : Red Squirrel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
ISBN | : 9780955215971 |
Author | : Adam Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781724018205 |
The British are not who you think they are... In fact, they're not even who they think they are! Come on a hilarious tour of the most misunderstood people on Earth. Throwing away all the usual, boring stereotypes, best-selling author (and Brit) Adam Fletcher will explain: - What cricket has to do with the Grim Reaper. - When you shouldn't say sorry. - The real reason Brexit happened. - Which secret religion every Brit is a member of. - The twenty most annoying phrases in the English language. - What every Brit automatically does when left alone. - The revolutionary hangover cure invented in Scotland. - The secret ideology behind roundabouts. - The Ten Commandments of British humour. And much more. Packed with warmth, humour, honesty, insight, and more than forty hilarious illustrations, Understanding the British is the definitive irreverent guide to a strange nation--a book that will appeal to lovers of George Mikes, Bill Bryson, and George Mahood. The truth about the British will surprise you. Discover it now! Bonus: includes a How British Are You? quiz that will reveal just how well you understand the British mentality.
Author | : Rick Atkinson |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1627790446 |
Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.
Author | : Michael Odell |
Publisher | : Doubleday Children's |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780857525413 |
When someone who is an immigrant to Britain wants to obtain UK Citizenship, after at least five years in the country, they have to jump through all sorts of hoops, including sassing an English test, as well as passing a test of multiple-choice questions, based on an official Home Office handbook called Life in the UK. Unless you have studied and memorised that book, you would probably fail, even if you're British born and bred. In a recent poll, 51% of British 18-24 year olds failed to reach the 75% pass level. Sample questions: - Do you know how many members of the Welsh Assembly there are? - How many jury members in a Sheriff Court? - The contents of the 1689 Bill of Rights? - What the central shopping area of most towns is called? (Yes, really ) - Who is/was Richard Arkwright, Sake Dean Mahomet, John Petts, or David Weir? With Brexit and all the talk of sovereignty, the question of what it really means to be British has never been more important, so here is your chance to see how you measure up to what your country (or at least, some Whitehall civil servants) expects you to know. So here are 500 sample questions based on the Life in the UK book, to test yourself, or to play as a quiz with family or friends. The answers will inform, surprise and above all, make you laugh
Author | : Cameron McPhail |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781845026998 |
The deadpan but hilarious 'British Nationality Test' marks a truly new direction for the genre and is well removed from those insipid and often rather base joke books. Fast forward to the time when global warming has kicked in and Britain has been transformed into a Mediterranean paradise. Faced with waves of immigration, the government is forced to bring in a challenging nationalality test in an attempt to stem the human tide of aspiring citizens. The twist is that this is a test with a difference. Out goes Latin and biology and in comes the likes of gender studies and sports studies, with hilarious results.
Author | : David Olusoga |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1529064422 |
Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards, 2021 Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 A short, essential introduction to Black British history for readers of 12+ by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian’s Wall right up to the present day. This children's version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History is illustrated with maps, photos and portraits. Macmillan Children's Books will donate 50p from every copy sold to The Black Curriculum.
Author | : Archibald St John Smith |
Publisher | : Crombie Jardine Publishing |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1906051607 |
A funny take on the eccentric nature of the Brits. An example taken from a British newspaper: "e;At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied he was sorry, but he didn't have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. (Aberdeen Evening Express)"e;
Author | : Imogen Russell Williams |
Publisher | : Inspiring Lives |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781839940156 |
The inspiring stories of 50 key figures in Great Britain's history, who had an impact on the ways we live, think and feel today.
Author | : Lynne Murphy |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-04-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1524704881 |
CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English “English accents are the sexiest.” “Americans have ruined the English language.” Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English. By examining the causes and symptoms of American Verbal Inferiority Complex and its flipside, British Verbal Superiority Complex, Murphy unravels the prejudices, stereotypes and insecurities that shape our attitudes to our own language. With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political and linguistic forces that have driven American and British English in different directions: how Americans got from centre to center, why British accents are growing away from American ones, and what different things we mean when we say estate, frown, or middle class. Is anyone winning this war of the words? Will Yanks and Brits ever really understand each other?