Culture of the United Kingdom  

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Cover of Sweeney Todd, published by Charles Fox in 48 numbers
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Cover of Sweeney Todd, published by Charles Fox in 48 numbers

"James!"

--You Rang, M'Lord?


"Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?"


I should like to acknowledge two books which were of help to me, especially in matters of social history, M. J. Quinlan's regrettably forgotten Victorian Prelude (New York, 1941), and Norman St. John-Stevas' Obscenity and the Law (London, 1956). David Foxon's important and authoritative essays on the historical origins of pornography, "Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745."--The Other Victorians (1964) by Steven Marcus

Title page from Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) by Samuel Richardson
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The culture of the United Kingdom is rich and varied, and has been influential on culture on a worldwide scale.

It is a European state, and has many cultural links with its former colonies, particularly those that use the English language (the Anglosphere).

Popular culture of the United Kingdom has impacted upon the world in the form of the British invasion, Britpop and British television broadcasting. British literature and British poetry, particularly that of William Shakespeare, is revered across the world.

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British low culture

British low culture or British exploitation is exploitation culture from Great Britain.

1950s

Smut and innuendo in British culture

Smut and innuendo with sexual and scatological themes, typified by:

By sensibility

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