Share Your Stories

What five objects - anecdotes, artefacts, emotional connections, films, food, landmarks, language, literature, music, nature, places or people who deserve recognition and respect of what it means to be ‘English’ - would you include within your own ‘Story of England’?

Please share your ideas of what you think should be in ‘The story of England 2026 in 50 objects’. Invite your family, friends, neighbours, colleagues to have a go at identifying their 5 objects.

Send your ideas by March 31st by clicking here.

Here are 10 to get you started, courtesy of Billy Bragg and Caroline Lucas

How many do you recognise?

Billy Bragg's Top 5 - What do you think? Do you like Marmite too?
Jerusalem
The Lion and the Unicorn
Marmite
Nobby Stiles
The White Horse

Caroline Lucas' Top 5. Which band or artist would you include?
Birds eye view of Shropshire
The London Underground
The Levellers Manifesto
The Magna Carta
The Beatles