Article: Letter: So much to be proud of; NATIONAL DAY: As England prepares to celebrate its patron saint's day we look at some of the events and activities taking place in the city - and you tell us what being English means to you.(Letters)

Article: A festival of English rallies to St ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... regarded themselves as English. 'The success of ... together and celebrate English culture. 'We are using St George's Day as a vehicle ... festival for the English to celebrate and ... Royal Society of St George, who are holding ...

Article: English celebrate with flags, food on St. ...
AP Online;  April 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Little wonder the English have an identity ... April 23 is St. George's Day, England ... realm of sport, English patriotism and the St. George flag long were ... preservation group English Heritage, which ... to celebrate St. George's Day, published ...

Article: ST GEORGE STYLE: The strange tale of the Turkish ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... April 23 we celebrate St George, the Patron Saint of ... who was not, in fact, English. It is believed that St George was born between 263 ... same flag which is the English flag today. In the 14th century St George became the patron saint ...

Article: We English must ride to the rescue of St ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  April 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the story of the English saint are a direct ... metropolitan elite. St George is clearly adept ... hoist the flag of St George. To the likes of ... Blairs it represents English nationalism and ... told that to be English is to be guilty ... ism', and that St George and his ...

Article: Flagging up celebrations for a very English saint; Kirsty ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... reasons as to why St George's story was adopted by the English. Dick Russell ... find out what the English would like as ... anthem to mark St George's Day. Abide ... fourth. Fact File St George was not actually English at all. He was ...

Article: English question their identity as St. ...
AP Worldstream;  April 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... it means to be English. The traditions of St. George are chivalry ... cultures, the English seem adrift and ... nationalistic. The St. George's Cross has become ... University, said the English do not celebrate St. George' s Day because ...

Article: English? You can't come in... ST GEORGE ...
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  April 27, 2005 ;     643 words ... ... by Birmingham's St George's Association ... Council to make the English patron saint's ... ourselves at the St George's Day celebrations ... browsing the old English market. 'But the ... England today are the English.' A spokesman ... Wetherspoon's did lay on St George's ...