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Black Pudding: invented in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis black pudding is often served as part of a traditional full English breakfast The Great British Breakfast!
"And then to breakfast, with what appetite you have." Shakespeare
The great British breakfast is famous (or notorious) throughout the world! Actually nowadays it is a bit of a myth, today many British people are more likely to have a bowl of cornflakes or a cup of coffee with a cigarette than to indulge in the wonders of this feast!
However that is not to say that the traditional breakfast is dead, far from it, it's just not often eaten every day of the week. Speaking as a true Brit I occassionally push the boat out and treat myself to the full monty (not to be confused with the film of the same name).
The typical English breakfast is a 19th century invention, when the majority of English people adopted the copious meal of porridge, fish, bacon and eggs, toast and marmalade, that has now appeared on English breakfast tables for 100 years.
The annual consumption in the United Kindgom is 450,000 tonnes of bacon, 5,000 tonnes of sausages and millions of eggs, so you can see the Great British Breakfast is very much alive and well. It has retained its popularity as one of the country's favourite meals, and survived a whole series of eating trends and food fads.
British Music
Music of the United Kingdom refers all forms of music associated with the United Kingdom and its people since its formation in 1707. It is informed by the History of the United Kingdom as a union of four countries, each with their own musical traditions including Church music, court and popular music that we now term folk music. Church music and religious music in general had been profoundly affected by the Reformation from the sixteenth century, which curtailed many of the events associated with such music and forced the development of a distinctive national music of worship and belief. In contrast court music, although having many unique elements remained much more integrated into wider European culture, often drawing on composers born in continental Europe as it developed into modern classical music. It began to obtain clear national identities in the components of the United Kingdom towards the end of the nineteenth century, producing many composers and musicians of note and drawing on the folk tradition.
Folk music flourished until the era of industrialisation when it began to be replaced by new forms of popular music, including Music hall and brass bands. Realisation of this led to two folk revivals, one in the later nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth, which kept folk music as an important sub-culture within society. In the early twentieth century American influences became most dominant in popular music, with young performers producing their own versions of American music, including rock n' roll from the late 1950s and developing a parallel music scene. This led to the explosion of the 'British Invasion' of America of the early 1960s, spearheaded by The Beatles, from which point rock music and popular music in general became something of an Anglo-American collaboration, with movements on one side of the ocean being exported to the other, where they tended to be adapted and turned into new movements, only to be exported back again. As a result of these factors the United Kingdom had remained a major source of musical innovation and participation in the modern era.
Folk Music, Folk Song and Folk Dance are comparatively recent expressions, being extensions of the term Folk lore, coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe "the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes." The term is further derived from the German expression Volk, in the sense of "the people as a whole" as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier.
Although English folk ballads and customs like morris dancing (a ritual dance performed with sticks to the accompaniment of fiddle and/or accordion) have existed for hundreds of years or more, they were performed in rural communities and generally not exposed to the wider world. But that began to change in the early 20th century with the work of song collectors Francis James Child and Cecil Sharp. Were it not for them the English folk/folk-rock scene as it exists today would not have developed without the pioneering work of those two men. The repertoires of many currently active performers include songs collected by Child, Sharp or both.
Child, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, who graduated from Harvard in 1846, produced the five volume set The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, which contains 305 songs and has become an invaluable sourcebook for performers looking to add to their repertoires. In 1903, Cecil Sharp bicycled around England collecting ballads and tunes. He lectured about his findings and in 1911 formed the English Folk Dance Society (which merged with the Folk Song Society to become the English Folk Song and Dance Society in 1932). Sharp continued his research by traveling to Appalachia in 1916 and there found songs that had English roots.
The English folk revival's first wave came in the 1960s, with performers such as the Young Tradition, the Watersons, Davey Graham, Pentangle and Fairport Convention. The Young Tradition and the Watersons emphasized close harmony a capella singing and focused on traditional ballads. Guitarist Graham created the "folk baroque" school, blending traditional melodies with the elegance of baroque and classical music. The acoustic-based quintet Pentangle further explored that style by adding jazz-influenced instrumental techniques and rhythms. Fairport Convention started out as a psychedelic-era pop/folk band, playing original songs as well as interpretations of Bob Dylan tunes. But when vocalist Sandy Denny joined in 1968, she introduced the group to her repertoire of traditional ballads. This began a major change for the band, which was manifest on the 1969 release Liege & Lief. This landmark album, generally considered the seminal English folk-rock recording, consisted of adaptations of traditional ballads and tunes along with new songs. That recording inspired several generations of musicians and that Fairport lineup included several musicians whose solo careers later added their own stamps to the development of English folk-rock. Bassist Ashley Hutchings, for instance, was a founding member of Steeleye Span, the other great English folk-rock group.
Inspired by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, a number of other folk rock bands appeared in the 1970s, but none of those bands lasted more than a few years. In 1980s that punk-influenced folk-rockers like Billy Bragg and the Men They Couldn't Hang appeared. This spirit strongly affected one time country-dance unit Oyster Ceilidh Band, which evolved into Oysterband and whose catchy original songs were (and are) propelled by rocked-up folk-dance rhythms. Along side the punk-folkers, veterans remained active. Martin Carthy teamed up with accordionist John Kirkpatrick and a brass section to form Brass Monkey. Also sporting a brass section was the regal sounding and fully electric band Home Service.
Led by Eliza Carthy (daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson) and Yorkshire's Kate Rusby, the next generation of English roots musicians began to appear in the late 1990s. They're a talented and diverse bunch, but one thing that binds them together is that all are adventurous musically, equally comfortable playing in solo situations or with bands
Music is an essential part of British culture. The need and appreciation for music is evident in the everyday lives of people for it is heard in movies, on television and throughout all forms of audio media. The majority of people also choose to listen to music for pleasure so it is not surprising, considering the bombardment of music one is faced with, that music can be an instrument of social influence and change. Music is a powerful form of communication. It can be personal, political, opportunistic, and can be self-expressive with therapeutic effects due to the release of emotion.
Pop music is an important part of British culture, not just as an expression of Englishness, but as an indicator of the multi-cultural nature of Britain today. The Beatles first arrived on the Liverpool music scene in the early 60's creating a huge controversial craze among their fans known as Beatle Mania.
Theatre
From its formation in 1707, the United Kingdom has had a vibrant tradition of theatre, much of it inherited from England and Scotland. Theatre was introduced from Europe to England by the Romans and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose. By the medieval period theatre had developed with the mummers' plays, a form of early street theatre associated with the Morris dance, concentrating on themes such as Saint George and the Dragon and Robin Hood. These were folk tales re-telling old stories, and the actors travelled from town to town performing these for their audiences in return for money and hospitality. The medieval mystery plays and morality plays, which dealt with Christian themes, were performed at religious festivals. The reign of Elizabeth I in the late 16th and early 17th century saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. Perhaps the most famous playwright in the world, William Shakespeare, wrote around 40 plays that are still performed in theatres across the world to this day. They include tragedies, such as Hamlet (1603), Othello (1604), and King Lear (1605); comedies, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1594—96) and Twelfth Night (1602); and history plays, such as Henry IV, part 1—2. The Elizabethan age is sometimes nicknamed "the age of Shakespeare" for the amount of influence he held over the era. Other important Elizabethan and 17th-century playwrights include Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and John Webster.
During the Interregnum 1642—1660, English theatres were kept closed by the Puritans for religious and ideological reasons. When the London theatres opened again with the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, they flourished under the personal interest and support of Charles II. Wide and socially mixed audiences were attracted by topical writing and by the introduction of the first professional actresses (in Shakespeare's time, all female roles had been played by boys). New genres of the Restoration were heroic drama, pathetic drama, and Restoration comedy. The Restoration plays that have best retained the interest of producers and audiences today are the comedies, such as William Wycherley's The Country Wife (1676), The Rover (1677) by the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696), and William Congreve's The Way of the World (1700). Restoration comedy is famous or notorious for its sexual explicitness, a quality encouraged by Charles II (1660–1685) personally and by the rakish aristocratic ethos of his court.
In the 18th century, the highbrow and provocative Restoration comedy lost favour, to be replaced by sentimental comedy, domestic tragedy such as George Lillo's The London Merchant (1731), and by an overwhelming interest in Italian opera. Popular entertainment became more important in this period than ever before, with fair-booth burlesque and mixed forms that are the ancestors of the English music hall. These forms flourished at the expense of legitimate English drama, which went into a long period of decline. By the early 19th century it was no longer represented by stage plays at all, but by the closet drama, plays written to be privately read in a "closet" (a small domestic room).
A change came in the late 19th century with the plays on the London stage by the Irishmen George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde and the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, all of whom influenced domestic English drama and vitalised it again.
Today the West End of London has a large number of theatres, particularly centred around Shaftesbury Avenue. A prolific composer of the 20th century Andrew Lloyd Webber has dominated the West End for a number of years and his musicals have travelled to Broadway in New York and around the world, as well as being turned into films.
The Royal Shakespeare Company operates out of Shakespeare's birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon in England, producing mainly but not exclusively Shakespeare's plays.
Important modern playwrights include Alan Ayckbourn, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, and Arnold Wesker.
Popular British Holidays
Guy Fawkes Day aka Bonfire Night - November 5PthP. This popular British rhyme is often spoken on Bonfire Night, in memory of the Gunpowder Plot: Remember, remember the 5th of NovemberGunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason that gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgotten. 
The smell of gunpowder smoke and the snap and crackle of bonfires will fill the capital in the run up to Bonfire Night. Thousands of revellers will line London's parks to "ooh" and "aah" as the city explodes into colour, in remberance of Guy Fawkes (Guido Fawkes) and his foiled plot to blow up Parliament and the King in 1605.
Guy Fawkes was born in Yorkshire in 1570. A convert to the Catholic faith, Fawkes had been a soldier who had spent several years fighting in Italy. It was during this period that he adopted the name Guido (Italian for Guy) perhaps to impress the ladies!
'Guy Fawkes Day' also known as 'Bonfire Night' or 'Fireworks Night' by some, marks the date, November 5, 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators attempted to kill King James I and the Members of Parliament and to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
This conspiracy arose as a reaction to the persecution of Catholics under the rule of King James, a Protestant. Infuriated by the failure of King James, the son of the passionately Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, to grant more toleration to Catholics. Four other Catholics joined with Fawkes in his plans including Robert Catesby. Catesby made a fatal error and invited other Catholics to join the plot until there were 60 plotters in all, you try keeping a secret when 60 people know about it.
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