In the United States, the Stars and Stripes are everywhere: on porches, lawns and pickup trucks. The national flag is part of the scenery, almost invisible in its ubiquity. In England, flags are rarer ...

For centuries the ultimate emblem of Britishness has meant different things to different people, and now it is back in the ...

RUGBY, England—Stuart Field raised his first flags in July: the English red cross of St. George and also a smattering of the British red, white and blue, hanging them from his hometown’s streetlights.

Thousands of Gibraltarians gathered today to mark National Day, a celebration of their British heritage and unique identity. The annual event commemorates the 1967 referendum in which 99 per cent of ...