Thousand year old tradition of printing Britain's laws on vellum has been scrapped to save just £80,000 telegraph.co.uk/education/1214…

Wearing Orange on St Patrick's Day! facebook.com/Wearing-Orange…

Murderous Mediaeval bunnies thepoke.co.uk/2015/04/05/10-…

It was on 12 April 1606 that the Union Flag was first adopted by royal proclamation as the flag for use on all English and Scottish ships

Today Thursday 21 April 2016 is the 90th Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth. God Save the Queen.

Happy Saint George’s Day. Apart from England, St George is the patron Saint of Georgia, Malta, Ethiopia, and many cities, including Moscow

Members and supporters of the Royal Society of St George, in Auckland, New Zealand, now have a Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/1718477…

What are you doing to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the greatest writer the world has ever seen?

Today is the fifth anniversary of the wedding of Prince William Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton, who were married on 29 April 2011

Ten British May Day traditions, in pictures | via The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/expat/life/ten…

Today 2 June is the 63rd anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation, and the announcement that the British expedition had conquered Mount Everest

Today is the 95th birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Her Majesty the Queen, Head of the Commonwealth. Well done, sir.

On 8th August 1588 the Battle of Gravelines, off the coast of Flanders, ended the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade Protestant England

Tomorrow 5 November is Guy Fawkes Day, marking the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a failed terrorist attempt to kill King James I and Parliament

Monday 30th January is the feast day of the martyred King Charles I: "I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown"

Although her birthday is celebrated in June, today is the real (91st) birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen was born on April 21, 1926

Happy St George’s Day. St George is the patron Saint of England, Georgia, Malta, Ethiopia, and many regions and cities, including Moscow

29 May is Oak Apple Day, "to be for ever kept as a day of thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny and the King's return" in 1660.

Today is the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by the self-proclaimed Continental Congress of the 13 American colonies

Brian Rudman: Guy Fawkes pointless exercise in burning money nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…