List of cultural icons of the United Kingdom

Red telephone box and a Royal Mail red post box are seen throughout the UK

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 the constituent countries (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.[1]

2. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).[1]

3. The red telephone box.[2]

4. Royal Mail red post box.[3]

5. The red Routemaster double decker bus.[1]

6. The black London Hackney Carriage taxi.[1]

7. Rolls Royce Motor Cars

8. Britannia.[4]

9. British Royal Family.[1]

10. Buckingham Palace.[1]

11. Association football.[1]

12. Big Ben.[1]

13. Stonehenge.[1]

14. Tower of London.[1]

15. Winston Churchill

16. Admiral Horatio Nelson

17. British Bulldog.[5]

18. The Union Flag.[1]

19. Cup of tea (drinking habits).[1]

20. Spitfire (World War II plane)

21. William Shakespeare.[1]

22. James Bond.[1]

23. Sherlock Holmes.[1]

24. Fish and Chips.[1]

25. The Pub.[1]

26. Bangers and Mash

27. The Mini.[1]

28. The Beatles.[1]

29. Team GB

30. Scottish kilts.[6]

31. Tartan

32. Bagpipes

33. Robert Burns

34. Whisky.[6]

35. Golf.[7]

36. Hadrian's Wall.

37. Punch and Judy.[8]

38. Full breakfast.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Bacon butties, roast dinners and a cuppa: 50 things we love best about Britain show we're a nation of food lovers". Daily Mail. Retrieved 5 November 2012
  2. ↑ Odone, Cristina (11 March 2013). "The trashing of the iconic red phone box is one bad call". Telegraph.
  3. ↑ "From pillar to post: How Royal Mail builds Britain's letter boxes - and why they look exactly the same now as they did 160 years ago". Daily Mail. Retrieved 5 November 2014
  4. ↑ "The History of Britannia". Royal Mint. Retrieved 5 November 2014
  5. ↑ Baker, Steve (2001). Picturing the Beast. University of Illinois Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-252-07030-5.
  6. 1 2 3 "Whisky and kilts bottom of British icons top 20". The Scotsman. Retrieved 5 November 2014
  7. ↑ "About the SGU - What is the Scottish Golf Union?". Scottish Golf Union official website. Retrieved 2008-12-06. The game of golf is one of Scotland’s greatest assets. A national icon, thousands of golfers from across the world descend upon the Home of Golf each year to take up the challenge of some of the planet’s most famous courses and some of the game’s finest hidden gems. Golf is a vital part of Scotland’s economy and vitally important to our nation’s psyche.
  8. ↑ "Punch and Judy around the world". The Telegraph. 11 June 2015.
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