Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Dismantling Mantelpieces - The Rules Of English Behaviour (28 Apr 2004) In the age of central heating, why do we have mantelpieces and what do we put on them? Social Dis-ease, Humour and Eeyorishness- the social anthropologist Kate Fox spent ten years tracking down the traits that define the English. She tells Laurie about queue jumping, eavesdropping and bumping into people in the name of research. Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed_20040428.shtml Read 167 more articles from BBC Radio 4 sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Media: Bloug reflects on Boundary Trouble This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy