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Culture of England

  • The BeatlesIn November 1956, a sixteen-year-old John Lennon formed a skiffle group with friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool.
  • Church of EnglandIn 597, Pope Gregory I sent a group of missionaries to England to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons. This mission was led by Augustine, who became the first…
  • OxbridgeWilliam Makepeace Thackeray published his novel Pendennis in 1850. The main character attended a fictional institution called Boniface College, described as…