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Every year Britain burns a man who tried to blow up Parliament, and in Lewes the fire extends to flaming barrels in the river and a march of thousands.
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Grown adults strap bells to their shins, whack sticks together and dance in car parks, all to keep a tradition alive that Shakespeare's clown once danced 100 miles.
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Europe's biggest street party began as an indoor event in a London town hall in 1959, started by a woman who fought for Black Britons' dignity.
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Every Shrove Tuesday, women in aprons sprint through an English town flipping pancakes, racing a rival town in Kansas – and the winner gets a kiss from the verger.
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The oldest known tartan in Britain was stuffed into a pot of Roman coins near Falkirk, and the kilt you picture is younger than the Union Jack.
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A Scottish tradition where grown adults hurl a tree trunk end over end, pipers battle for glory, and the monarch might be watching from the stand.
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