Icons likes to let you know what's going on. Anytime we hear something interesting about English culture and heritage, we'll be publishing it here.
Hedgehog voted Number One
2007-01-12 12:31:43
ICONS and The Environment Agency has announced the winner in England and Wales' poll
What have people said about the Icons?
2006-12-11 16:19:37
Celebrities and VIPs comment on the latest round of icons...
ICONS' New Icons of England
2006-11-09 19:19:34
Winnie-the-Pooh, Sgt. Pepper, Doctor Who, Westminster Abbey, the Stiff Upper Lip, the Rolls-Royce and V-sign all make it onto the ICONS list - 21 new Icons of England revealed today
Art Fund takes Queen and Country to the Barbican
2008-06-05 11:58:25
This week sees The Art Fund’s tour of Queen and Country move onto the Barbican where it will coincide with the National Theatre of Scotland’s multi-award-winning production Black Watch.
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD AT SHEFFIELD MILLENNIUM GALLERIES
2008-06-05 11:47:58
Sheffield’s Millennium Galleries plays host to the work of iconic British designer and true bastion of English eccentricity (a nominated Icon), Vivienne Westwood, this summer, with an exhibition of her clothes on show until September 21. This is the only UK showing, outside of London, of an exhibition spanning 30 years of Westwood’s endlessly inventive career.
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End of the road for the classic black cab?
2008-04-16 13:18:09
Just as ICONS – A Portrait of England has hailed the black cab as an English icon, things are looking distinctly shaky for the nation’s favourite taxicab.