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UK TRADITIONS Since discovering the Internet I have "met" many wonderful
people and have had long correspondences with many of them. A few years
ago, as the holiday season approached, and once they knew which side
of the Atlantic I am on, I began to be inundated with enquiries about
a "Traditional British Christmas" and questions about things which I
soon realised are peculiarly British. I replied to all of them, and
quickly realised that I was repeating myself over and over again. So,
the germ of an idea for (yet another) website was born.
By now you may well have noticed that this calendar
of traditional British holidays and celebrations is centred firmly around
Christian holidays and traditions. Although it may not be "politically
correct" to say so, this is still, nominally at least, a Christian
country and the Church of England is still the Established Church,
with the Queen as its head. Whilst we are now very much a multi-cultural
society, and undoubtedly the richer for being so, our traditions and
roots are still firmly fixed in our Christian heritage and for that
reason I have stuck to TRADITIONAL British customs and holidays. If
you are looking for holidays and ideas from other cultures and religions,
you can begin your web search here. Click here to go BACK to my Home Page, back to the TOP of this page, or perhaps you'd like to try out some traditional British RECIPES or look for CLIPART? HOME | SITE MAP | RECIPES | CLIPART | CRAFT IDEAS | WEBRINGS
In the census of 2001 there was a section in which the respondents were asked to state their religion : 73% (nearly 43 million people) gave their religion as Christian - an overwhelming majority in a supposedly secular state. (The next two biggest groups were "no religion" and "refused to answer.") |
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