Writing England...

"England and Britain" is an absolutely enormous subject - you'll probably have to research particular parts of it. The people, places, economy, culture, traditions, history, politics, humour, religions... there's an almost endless list.

Amazon would probably be a good start, they have books on just about everything on there. They also have books about how to write non fiction books which you might find useful. You could also try looking at tourist information sites or maybe the British Embassy might have some information.

Hello, Guypersona, and welcome to MyLot. As others have said, the subject is vast, so my advice - I do a lot of travel writing - would be to fix on a particular area to start with. A good place to start would be London, because there is masses of information about it, and there's all the history attached to the place, as well as the pageantry that goes on all the time. For example, you could start by writing about London's parks, or the Tower of London, or famous people born in London, special events in spring, summer, autumn or winter, Jack the Ripper, London's museums or theatres - the list is endless. All this research and writing will introduce information about other parts of the country as well. For example, writing about the Imperial War Museum would bring in all aspects of life all over the UK from 1914 through to 1945. As you come up with topics that interest you, you can take your research in the direction you want to go, rather than trying to read up on all things British. Hope this helps, and I've included a link to the Imperial War Museum to get you started. : http://www.iwm.org.uk/ :

The very best resource I can suggest is anything written by Bill Bryson, especially his book, "Notes from a Small Island." As with all of Bryson's travel books, you will feel as though you're living in the U.K. along with him. Even the British people voting in a World Book Day competition chose this as the best book about the British way of life. You'll probably also be interested in "Notes from a Big Country," a.k.a. "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," which is a collection of Bryson's newspaper columns written in the U.K. Bryson is an American, by the way, who became so enamored of the U.K., he moved there in 1973. My personal favorites among his works are "Mother Tongue" (a highly entertaining read about the development of the English language) and "In a Sunburned Country" (about his travels through Australia, especially interesting to me as I've spent some time Down Under myself).