Editing East Anglia (section)

==Symbols and culture==
[[File:Three crowns emblem.jpg|thumb|Three crowns emblem at [[Saxmundham]]'s parish church]]
[[File:Memorial to East Anglians who died during The Great War - geograph.org.uk - 628576.jpg|thumb|Memorial to East Anglians who died during the [[World War I|First World War]] in [[Liverpool Street Station]]. The memorial, erected by the London Society of East Anglians, displays the flag]]
A shield of [[three golden crowns]], placed two above one, on a blue background has been used as a symbol of East Anglia for centuries. The [[coat of arms]] was ascribed by medieval heralds to the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia and the [[Wuffingas]] dynasty which ruled it. The arms are effectively identical to the [[coat of arms of Sweden]].

The three crowns appear, carved in stone, on the [[baptismal font]] (c.1400) in the parish church of [[Saxmundham]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saxmundham.org/aboutsax/parishchurch.html |title=The Parish Church |publisher=Saxmundham |access-date=19 April 2016 |archive-date=24 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224062029/http://www.saxmundham.org/aboutsax/parishchurch.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and on the 15th-century porch of [[Woolpit]] church, both in Suffolk. They also appear in local heraldry and form part of the arms of the [[diocese of Ely]] and the arms of the borough of [[Bury St Edmunds]], where the crowns are shown pierced with arrows to represent the martyrdom of [[Edmund the Martyr]], the last king of East Anglia. Other users of the arms include the former [[Isle of Ely County Council]], the [[Borough of Colchester]] and the [[University of East Anglia]]. The [[flag of Cambridgeshire]] (adopted in 2015) includes the three gold crowns on a blue field.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cambridgeshire |url=https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/flags/cambridgeshire/ |website=Flaginstitute.org/ |publisher=Flag Institute |access-date=4 June 2018}}</ref>

The East Anglian flag as it is known today was proposed by George Henry Langham and adopted in 1902 by the London Society of East Anglians (established in 1896). It superimposes the three crowns in a blue shield on a [[St George's cross]].

East Anglia features heavily in English literature, notably in [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Private Lives]]'' and the history of its waterways and drainage forms the backdrop to [[Graham Swift]]'s novel ''[[Waterland (novel)|Waterland]]''. The area also figures in works by [[L.P. Hartley]], [[Arthur Ransome]] and [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], among many others.

"Suffolk pink" and similar pastel colours of [[whitewash]] are commonly seen on houses in Suffolk, Norfolk and their neighbouring counties.