Real History

Many of England’s key customs, traditions and culture were adopted and taken up as our own over the centuries. A number of components of our national heritage and identity have been imported over the years, including genetic and genealogical heritage, language, place names, buildings, culture, food, money, commerce, names, key institutions, humour, religion and art.

English Institutions
Some of the institutions of English culture that are uncovered as ‘imports’ are:

· The eponymous English Sunday Roast which was actually introduced to our diet by the invading Romans.

· English cleanliness, which Eddie discovers, was imported from India.

· The English Language, which is in fact Germanic.

· Our system of government, which is a complete mongrel creation – with a mix of influences from the Romans, the Vikings, the Saxons and even the Normans. All of who left their mark long after they invaded our shores.

· The English pound, which is yet another thing that the Roman’s did for us, before which we had no currency of our own and bartered goods as a way of life.

· Our patron saint – George – who historians now believe was Turkish.