British Civilization: A Student's Dictionary (2nd edition)

The UK is a small country: the entry in this book on John O'Groats points out that its distance from Land's End is some 600 miles (955 km). Yet within that small compass what a diversity of history, tradition, culture, society, administration and the rest we have evolved and still offer to a perplexed world; still offer to our perplexed selves often enough too. An adult native's first reaction on seeing this little volume will likely be along the lines of teaching granny to suck eggs: but put yourself in the position of a visiting student, or of a grandfather...