List of cultural icons of the United Kingdom
The cultural icons and symbols of the United Kingdom are mostly interchangeable with symbols of Britain. This page could, theoretically, be called British cultural icons. The list includes certain symbols of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which, for one reason or another, may be perceived to be shared by other parts of the United Kingdom, or were founded or invented after the British Act of Union 1707, or before the creation of the constituent countries (hence the inclusion of Stonehenge). At a stretch, they could be things which were created or invented, or people who were born, before the Act of Union but after the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
A red telephone box and a Royal Mail red pillar box, seen throughout the UK
Icons of the United Kingdom include:
- The Beatles.
- Big Ben (officially, the Elizabeth Tower).
- James Bond.
- Britannia.[1]
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
- British history.
- The British sense of humour.
- Buckingham Palace.
- British Bulldog.[2]
- Winston Churchill.
- The coastline.
- Cricket.
- Crumpets.
- The cup of tea.
- Doctor Who.
- Edward Elgar.
- Fish and Chips.
- Football.
- Full English breakfast.[3]
- The black, London Hackney Carriage taxi.
- Sherlock Holmes.
- The Houses of Parliament.
- Scottish kilts.[3]
- The Mini.
- Monty Python.[4]
- Harry Potter.
- The Pound sterling.
- The Pub.
- Punch and Judy.[5]
- Queen.[6]
- The Queen and the Royal Family.
- Received Pronunciation, or the Queen's English.
- The Red Arrows.
- Royal Mail red pillar box.
- The red telephone box.[7]
- The red AEC Routemaster double-decker bus.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
- Soap Operas (Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Eastenders)[8]
- Stonehenge.
- The Sunday roast.
- The Tower of London.
- The Union Flag.
- Whisky.[3]
- Wallace and Gromit
See also
References
- "The History of Britannia". Royal Mint. Retrieved 5 November 2014
- Baker, Steve (2001). Picturing the Beast. University of Illinois Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-252-07030-5.
- "Whisky and kilts bottom of British icons top 20". The Scotsman. Retrieved 5 November 2014
- “Top Ten British Icons”. Glamour. Retrieved 28 August 2019
- "Punch and Judy around the world". The Telegraph. 11 June 2015.
- “Queen declared 'top British band'. BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2019
- Odone, Cristina (11 March 2013). "The trashing of the iconic red phone box is one bad call". Telegraph.
- Jo, Jo. "BRITISH TV: EXPLORING THE UK'S MOST FAMOUS SOAP OPERAS". Anglotopia. https://www.anglotopia.net/. Retrieved 7 March 2020. External link in
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