The English are Geman, the Welsh are British ...

"The picturesque aesthetic was a way of seeing that emphasized the suitability of a scene to be included in a picture, that is, it was pictorially assimilable. This was the dominant aesthetic used in the colonies to not only portray the landscape, but to also change it. Hill station picture postcards show how this aesthetic was used to make "mountains" into "hills." They show us the aesthetic shifts that took place in order to create a "home away from home.""

http://tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/essay/102/

United Kingdom Venn Diagram

"The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England"

http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-united-kingdom-great-britain-england-venn-diagram/

Deploying the British Granny Cloud to tutor poor Indian classrooms over Skype

"This BBC video-clip describes the latest ingenious project from Sugata Mitra, an Indian-born professor at Newcastle University. You'll most likely know Mitra from his Hole in the Wall computers set into the walls of buildings in India's poorest slums. Mitra's new project uses the "UK Granny Cloud" -- a large group of British grannies who've agreed to volunteer an hour a week to tutor Indian classrooms over Skype video conferences -- to supplement education in Indian schools where there is a shortage of teachers. "

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/20/deploying-the-britis.html

British Perceptions of Tibet in the late 19th to the early 20th century

"For centuries Tibet has been a place of intrigue in Western minds. From as early as the time of Herodotus (484-425 BCE) the mythical perceptions of Tibet were already present in the West. In Herodotus’s third book of his work Histories apodeixis he describes fox-sized ants who would lived nearby tribes of people who lived north of the Indians. The fox-sized ants would dig up the sand to construct their underground homes while unearthing amounts of gold dust in the process. In the mornings gold-seekers would quickly come to gather up as much sand as possible before fleeing from the pursuing giant ants. ..."

http://tibettalk.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/british-perceptions-of-tibet-in-the-late-19th-to-the-early-20th-century/

Made by Britain: what will MPs choose

"Vince Cable's "Made By Britain" project is a celebration of British manufacturing in the last 160 years. As part of this, MPs have named the best example of British design, made in their constituency. The chosen designs range from an ejector seat designed in Beaconsfield, through Solihul's Land Rover, to McVities Custard Creams made in Carlisle and South Staffordshire's famous smiley potato faces."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/05/made-by-britain-vince-cable

Archdruid's 2012 Olympic Welsh flag demand

"The Archdruid of Wales wants the Welsh flag to be raised for Welsh medal winners at the 2012 London Olympics.

T James Jones has also called for the Welsh national anthem to be played instead of God Save The Queen.

At a speech marking the visit of the National Eisteddfod to Barry next year he said "Britishness" was endangering Welsh identity."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13927002

Britain from Above - The Lights of Britain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/visualisations/constellations.shtml

Decline and fall of the Roman myth

"We were ‘barbarians’, but early British civilisation outshone the Roman version, says ex-Python Terry Jones. We just lost the propaganda war"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article714033.ece

"The Romans had chariots, but the Britons made significant design improvements and, as Julius Caesar noted, had thoroughly mastered the art of using them. So how come the Romans built roads and the Celts did not? The answer is simple. The Celts did build roads. The “Romans-were-greatest” version of history made the earlier roads invisible until recently. One of the best preserved iron age roads is at Corlea in Ireland, but it was not until the 1980s that people realised how old it is. It was known locally as “the Danes’ road” and generally assumed to be of the Viking period or later. It was not until the timbers were submitted for tree-ring dating that the truth emerged: they were cut in 148BC.

However, the really startling thing is that wooden roads built the same way and at the same time have been found across Europe, as far away as northern Germany. The Celts, it seems, were sophisticated road builders and the construction of these wooden roads was no mean feat of engineering.

Oak planks were laid on birch runners and they were built broad enough for two carts to pass each other. What’s more, Celtic road building is not necessarily predated by that of the Romans. The first important Roman road was the Appian Way, built in 312BC, but the so-called “Upton Track” in south Wales, a wooden road laid across the mudflats along the Severn estuary, dates back to the 5th century BC. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article714033.ece