British Sports, Music & Literature
British literature: Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales), William Shakespeare (plays and sonnets), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice), Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist), the Brontë sisters, Robert Burns (Scottish poet). British music: Handel's Messiah, Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance), the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Proms (annual classical music festival at the Royal Albert Hall). Sports: football was first played in England, rugby originated at Rugby School, cricket (The Ashes), Wimbledon tennis, Six Nations rugby.