Port Magazine

The already highly popular Port magazine - launched only a year ago - brings a typically English combination of eras to men's magazine publishing. The name evokes the age-old ritual of male post-dinner drinking and the design references classic British magazines like Town and Nova. The content, though, is purely contemporary, covering global design, fashion and culture from a pointedly intelligent, English point of view.
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Newspaper Club

The Newspaper Club is a London-based initiative that makes use of printing presses during off-peak hours to allow anyone to print their own newspaper. The brainchild of Russell Davies (a former advertising executive, now blogger) and Ben Terrett (who is
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Cockney Rhyming

Once especially prevalent in London’s East End, Cockney Rhyming Slang is said to have been initiated as either a linguistic game, or a way of confusing non-locals by the Cockneys, those born within earshot of
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Satire

Satire has a very long and dishonourable British tradition. The propensity to laugh at our very own establishment is something that Brits can certainly lay
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English Poet and Playwright. He is often called England’s National Poet and the “Bard of Avon”.
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Three Literary Festivals

With a strong tradition of arts and culture festivals and over a thousand years of literary heritage, it’s no surprise that the two join forces at a variety of literary festivals across the nation. Hay Festival - hayfestival.com Described as ‘the Woodstock of the mind’, in its 25-year history, the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye has brought writers, speakers
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Dylan Thomas

With its ever-so-subtle Welsh lilt, the deeply impressive and sonorous voice of Dylan Thomas is as famous as his writing.
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HRH The Prince of Wales is not only an active architectural critic and purveyor of fine organic sausages (from the Duchy estate) but also an accomplished
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Dictionaries

It is generally stated, though authorities differ, that there is an excess of 280,000 words in the English Language when obsolete and dated words aren’t included. Of these, people know between 20,000-60,000 words depending on levels of education
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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron is considered one of the greatest and influential British poets to this day. Lord Byron played a
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Ministry of Stories

With nocturnal opening hours for vampire customers and products for sale that include fang floss, human snot and tins of
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Small Talk

Small talk is the very special British gift that helps social encounters run smoothly. Perhaps the most comfortable form of communication, if not always the most exciting, this rather British form of dialogue is an artform that steadfastly avoids direct
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Jane Austen

Jane Austen is a world renowned English author and despite her works being centuries old, she still has her fans today. Her timeless works have been
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Penguin

The Penguin English Library comprises 100 of the best novels in the English language. Penguin is dedicated to celebrating the pure pleasure of reading, and the Penguin Library of books are designed to be collectables to cherish forever. From romances like ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘A Room With A View’ and ‘Jude the Obscure’ to gothic horrors such as ‘Dracula’, ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ to fantastic tales
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Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath. Their mission was that its books should reveal the world
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Granta

Literary journal and publisher extraordinaire, Granta was founded in 1889 and has taken a hard line in editorial integrity
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In the year of...

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JK Rowling

As the author of the best selling book series in history, JK Rowling’s spellbinding success story is famous the world over. Her wizard protagonist, Harry
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Roald Dahl

Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl began his career in the Royal Airforce before finding fame in the 1940s as one of the world's best-selling authors. An inimitable, hilarious and unsentimental storyteller, Dahl’s Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, the BFG and Fantastic Mr Fox are still staple reading for every child growing up in Britain today. During his lifetime Dahl was committed to literacy causes and
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A.A Milne & Winnie the Pooh

Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library, one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and the second biggest library in Britain (after the British Library) is better known to Oxford scholars as ‘Bodley’ or ‘the Bod’.
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The Brontë Sisters

The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family who lived in the village of Haworth, Yorkshire, England. The 3 sisters,
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Claire de Rouen

Occupying a little L-shaped space on London’s Charing Cross Road, Claire de Rouen Books is something of an institution - not least because it is the only specialist photography and fashion bookshop in London. Opened seven years ago by Claire who ran the shop with the help of her pug Otis and partner Johnny, the store is a treasure trove of rare and signed titles, self-published books, magazines and Japanese
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Jeremy Leslie

Creative Director, magCulture

The Story conference brings people from many disciplines together to hear people like themselves sharing thoughts on storytelling. The rural
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Queens Speech

This annual event when the Queen addresses parliament is one of the many duties of the English Monarch. Along with the Royal Christmas Message it is one of
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Beatrix Potter

Alain de Botton

Writer

Britain is great because of its most endearing national trait, MODESTY. We’re a people of low self-esteem in a good way. In an age when
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