What is "english disease"

The English disease or British disease may refer to:

• Football hooliganism carried out by British fans
• Depression (mood), in particular, hypochondria
• Sudor anglicus, also known as the sweating sickness, common in sixteenth-century Europe
• Rickets
• Homosexuality
• The English Disease, a novel by Joseph Skibell
• Writing compound Dutch words as separate words, see Engelse ziekte on the Dutch Wikipedia
• Perceived trade union militancy in the 1970s–1980s, in particular the Winter of Discontent and ending with the 1984–1985 miners' strike