Fond as I am of making connections, here’s a series of posts on various aspects of being English:

• Watching the English
• also from Kate Fox, Headline punning
• The Archers
• By the sleepy lagoon
• Gender and class: Awdry and Blyton
• Hancock’s half hour
• How to be English apud Stewart Lee (“I’m English, I’m English! Wanna make something of it?”)
• Alan Bennett on hypocrisy, and on
• Going too far
• Morris dancing, with Chinese parallels
• Das Land ohne Musik
• Cunk on Britain
• A Shakespeare mélange
• this succinct take on regional division
• some posh English twits
• challenges to communication.

I also note this group of posts on intrepid British explorers:

• Alan Bennett overhears a Torquay couple in Egypt
• The ascent of Rum Doodle
• How to wear yellow well, with the great Ronnie Ancona
• Visiting a young “living Buddha”
• Morgan‘s mum is unimpressed by Greece
• Still with Greece: Bunnios masters not quite the right language
• The exotic travels of Phoebe Waller-Bridge
• Return of the Prophet (not), featuring the ever-readable Nigel Barley.

You can find more from Messrs Bennett, Lee, and Cunk under their respective tags in the sidebar.