List of cultural icons of the United Kingdom
Symbols of the United Kingdom are mostly interchangeable with symbols of Britain. Theoretically this page could be called British cultural ICONS. However unlike symbols of just England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales they are shared by other parts of the United Kingdom or were founded or invented after the British Act of Union 1707 or before the creation of England (hence the inclusion of Stonehenge). At a stretch they could be things that were created, invented or born before the Act of Union but after the Union of Crowns in 1603.
Icons of the United Kingdom include:
1. The Pound Sterling.
2. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
3. The red telephone box.
4. Royal Mail red post pillar box.
5. The red Routemaster double decker bus.
6. The black London Hackney Carriage taxi.
7. Rolls Royce Motor Cars
8. Britannia.
9. British Royal Family.
10. Buckingham Palace.
11. Association football.
12. Big Ben.
13. Stonehenge.
14. Tower of London.
15. Winston Churchill
16. Admiral Horatio Nelson
17. British Bulldog.
18. The Union Flag.
19. Cup of tea (drinking habits).
20. Spitfire (World War II plane)
21. William Shakespeare.
22. James BOND.
23. Sherlock Holmes.
24. Fish and Chips.
25. The Pub.
26. Bangers and Mash
27. The Mini.
28. The Beatles.
29. Team GB
30. Scottish kilts.
31. Tartan
32. Bagpipes
33. Robert Burns
34. Whisky.
35. Golf.
36. Hadrian's Wall.
See also
- Culture of the United Kingdom
- List of cultural icons of England
- List of cultural icons of Scotland
- List of cultural icons of Wales