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Let the caller beware 4 Never on Sunday? 4 Practical fashion 5 Swan-upping 6 Chemistry in the tea-pot 6 Racing pigeons 7 Names of baby-animals and birds 8 Harvest time 8 Starting work 10 The girl friends 11 Spring 12 Origins of some games and pastimes 13 May 13 Sherlock holmes lives! 14 Teapots 16 Manners in public 17 Jeans 17 Chests 18 Rub-a-dub-dub!20 The Japanese family 21 Thanksgiving day 21 What is pancake day? 22 High tea 22 The game of darts 23 The ceremony of the keys 24 Late summer bank holiday 25 Caring for the earth 25 Writing systems 26 The ruffians 26 How did april fools day get started? 27 Flying high 27 How do americans honour the men and women who served in wars? 28 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 28 Why do people in North and South America celebrate Columbus Day? 30 A bakers dozen 30 Who decorated the first Christmas tree? 31 Did people always sing Christmas carols? 32 Pancake bell 32 Dancing 32 Madame Tussauds royalty and empire exhibition 33 The Royal Mint 34 Japanese gardens 34 Eskimo blanket toss 35 English cottage gardens 36 The eisteddfod 37 Burns night 37 Edinburgh International Festival 38 Egg-rolling 39 First footing 39 February 14th 40 Valentines 41 The English character 42 The Scots and Scotland 44 The Irish: imaginative; hospitable and complex 44 The Christmas tree 46 Edinburgh Late summer 47 Happy Christmas 48 Happy New Year!50 Burns clubs 50 Traditionally English 50 Opening of Parliament 51 May Day celebrations 52 Who was king Arthur?52 A real person or a mythical character?54 Londons ceremonial events 55 Henry Wood promenade concerts 56 Billy the goat leads Welsh to Cenotaph 57 New Years eve in Scotland 58 Preserving an old traffic jam tradition 58 Merry England and London May Queen Festival 60 Maypole 61 A nice cup of tea 61 The Bath Festival 62 Make a date 63 Manners and morals 64 The art of tacit conversation 65 Are the English hypocrites?66 The role of tradition 67 Invitation to dinner 68 Only once a year 69 Hanging may baskets 70 Uniforms in London 70 Dislike of theories 71 In a manner of speaking 72 American customs 73 I wish you «Happy New Year»73 Clans and septs 74 Hogmanay 75 Londoners London 75 Electing the Lord Mayor 76 Traditional May Day festivities 77 «Day that belongs to the worlds workers»80 From the history of May Day celebrations 81 Perhaps it was the best carnival of them all 82 Landseers lions 83 Fireplaces 83 The Welsh poets and musicians 84 Hitch-hiking 84 Visible tradition Englands ruler 85 Just keep on singing 87 Royal Horse Guardsman on duty 89 Hip! Hip! Tur aie! 89 Make love, not war 90 Happy Hampstead 90 Cheese rolling at Coopers Hill 91 April in England 92 Pancake Day 93 Celebrating Hogmanay 94 The Emblem of spring 94 Hurling 95 The lively art of street painting 95 Festival of the whale 96 Remembrance Day (poppy day)98 Guy Fawkes night 99 Wedding superstitions 99 Henley Regatta 100 From London to Brighton 101 Sherlock Holmes revealed at last 102 April Fools Day 104 The yeoman warders 104 May Day 105 Left is right?106 The Night of Hogmanay 106 New Years Festivals 108 Trooping the Colour 108 The Welsh Eisteddfodau 110 Veteran cars run 111 Where the street is a stage 112 April 1st 113 Make way for badgers 113 The Chelsea Flower Show 114 «Merry Christmas-peace on earth» 115 Whats in a name 116 Highland Games
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