Britishness

Scotland – England

Northern Ireland - Wales

loyalist flag

Scotland – England

Northern Ireland - Wales

leek - daffodils

Tudor rosethistle

shamrock

Invasion 1: Romans 54 B.C.

Caesar – Claudius – Hadrian

Germanic (Angles Saxons Jutes) invasion 5th century

helmet from Sutton Hoo

Invasion 3: Norman 1066

William of Normandy (the Conqueror) defeats king Harold near Hastings.

English traditions

English values

•Stiff upper lip

•Fair play

•Polite

•Smug

•Royal family

•The past

British Humour

English politics

Gordon Brown

David CameronTony Blair

Margaret Thatcher John Major

House of Lords

House of Commons

The Empire

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers the Imperial Crown of India to Queen Victoria in 1877.