Topic: Merrie England

A Knights Tale – Keep Fit in Medieval England

hubPage - 495 days ago
Once upon a time in Merrie England, under the greenwood tree, when women span, and tended the hearth, and men did manly things with swords and castles and suits of armour, there lived a brotherhood of fine upstanding gentlemen, who were known ...

Ten of the best episodes of drunkenness

guardian.co.uk - 1191 days ago
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley AmisIneffectual academic Jim Dixon must give a lecture on " He adds some champagne and passes out, "one happy yob".The Way of the World, by William CongreveOne of the few comic female boozers in English literature, Lady Wishfort ...

The man who made England

Spectator, The London - 1201 days ago
My father was about as English as they come. He dyed his fair hair dark brown to match Rathbone's and brushed it back from his high forehead the same way Rathbone did. The mentor of this sterling type is none other ...