Culture of the United Kingdom
The the United Kingdom has a cultural heritage of a remarkable richness and a large variety. Poetry, Theater, Painting, Cinema, the quality of the chiefs of work accumulated during the centuries is recognized with the four corners of planet. The artistic expression covers today a range of disciplines even vaster - political Satire with the musics of the world - which give well an account of the creativity, the independence of mind and the cultural diversity of the British people. Being an island the britannqiues were and are a large seafaring nation. Their dominations on the seas will be one of the bases de lor worsens colonial. First world power in 1914, l´anglais and jusqu´aujourd´hui the international language, and English has jusqú aujourd´hui a mentality of great power often wanting to dissociate other Europeans.
Languages
The regional languages recognized are:- the Cornique (in Cornouailles)
- the Scottish (in Scotland)
- the Welsh (in Wales)
- the Irish (in Northern Ireland)
- the Scots (in Scotland)
- the scots of Ulster (in Northern Ireland)
The local governments are also free to make use of languages of immigrants or other languages according to their choice and the demography of their district.
Science
It is reported that in 2006, the United Kingdom was bases it of the most productive research after the the United States and trained innumerable scientists and engineers. One allots to the British scientific discoveries such as the Hydrogène, the Oxygène, the Gravité, the electron S, the structure DNA and of the inventions like the Télévision, the modern Vélo, the Ordinateur. The United Kingdom was also the first country to introduce the radio public continuously, the public transport system by rails and the network of civil and military radar fully operational.
Philosophy
More brilliant philosophers were originating in the United Kingdom. Among one found John Locke, David Hume and Bertrand Russell. The country counted also many philosophers on the other side of the channel born like Isaiah Berlin, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Marx.
Beautiful arts
- Arts & Crafts
- National Gallery
- Préraphaélisme
- Prix Turner
- Touches Gallery
Literature
- English Literature
- Theater élisabéthain
- Theater of the Earth
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Thomas Malory
- Samuel Richardson
- Laurence Tern
- Walter Scott
- Jane Austen
- Charles Dickens
- Thomas Hardy
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- H.G. Wells,
- Virginia Woolf
- George Orwell
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Milton
- John Gives
- George Herbert
- Andrew Marvell
- Alexander Pope
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- Robert Browning
- Lord Tennyson
- T.S. Eliot
- Wilfred Owen
- Philip Larkin
- W.H. Auden
- Ted Hughes
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlowe
- And more recently J.K. Rowling
- Scottish Literature
- Welsh Literature
- Welsh Celtic Literature
- Yolo Morganwg
- Dylan Thomas
- Irish Literature (in Northern Ireland after 1922)
- Seamus Heaney
- George Bernard Shaw
- Oscar Wilde
Music
- Of the type-setters such as:
- Henry Purcell
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Benjamin Britten
London remains one of the principal capitals of the world of Classical music
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But also
- Francis Bacon
- Peter Blake
- John Constable
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Richard Hamilton
- William Hogarth
- Long Richard
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Henry Moore
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- The Beatles
- Brit Awards
- Britpop
- Edward Elgar
- Great Highland Bagpipe
- English Opéra
- Pipe-band
- Henry Purcell
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- William Walton
- Underworld
- The Prodigy
- The Chemical Brothers
- Faithless
- 808 Orbital State
- The Orb
- The KLF
- Coldplay
- Snow Patrol
- Travis
- Embrace
- Keane
- The Libertines
- Hardware-Fi
- Arctic Monkeys
- Bloc Party
- Jamelia
- Girls Aloud
- Sugababes
- Spice Girls
- James Blunt
- The Rolling Stones
- Led Zeppelin
- Queen
- Pink Floyd
- The Kinks
- The Who
- Radiohead
- The Sex Pistols
- The Clash
- MUSE
Education
The country has some of most influential and famous seats of education superior like the Université of Oxford, the Université of Cambridge but also the University College of London ( UCL ) and the Université of London. In 2007 one counted 112 universities and university colleges . The United Kingdom has also a system of deprived education very heard and developed paradoxically called Public Schools .
Audio-visual
- Radio operator British
- British Television
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- British Academy off Film and Television Arts
- British Cinema
Festivals
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