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Charles Dickens London
I’ve got a little trip coming up for Amy’s birthday and was browsing around on airbnb. We’re hoping to find a nice little cottage in Santa Barbara for a few days. Anyway, I found their blog and this great post on Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday on February 17, 2012. Doubtless, the dour Victorian author would …
From the leading company in the Obstacle Course Industry – Tough Mudder
Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. …with 25-30 military-style obstacles. As the leading company in the booming obstacle course industry, Tough Mudder has already challenged 500,000 participants worldwide. FACT #1 – Marathon running is boring. FACT …
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Anglophiles rejoice, another British epic – Anthony Powell’s novels, A Dance to the Music of Time
Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time In the fall of 2009, I left the United States to spend a school year teaching English in China. There were many things to do before leaving, but one of the more pleasurable was choosing which books would see me through the year. When …
Anglophiles rejoice, another British epic – Anthony Powell's novels, A Dance to the Music of Time
Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time In the fall of 2009, I left the United States to spend a school year teaching English in China. There were many things to do before leaving, but one of the more pleasurable was choosing which books would see me through the year. When …
Downton Abbey – British costume drama from the creator of Young Victoria – Season 1 free on PBS
Julian Fellowes is as English as Earl Grey and clotted cream. As an actor, director and writer, he has continually peeked under the petticoats of British mores and conveyed the details with relish to audiences. His writing of the upstairs-downstairs whodunit Gosford Park won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002, and his subsequent films Vanity …
British Newspaper Archive – treasure trove of 3 million newspapers going back to the 1700s
I love these newspaper archives coming online. It’s like having a library in your home. The articles and pictures, the classifieds and political diatribes, it’s too fun. When it comes to the British we have to separate our living memory from our British memory. We tend to think that American culture dominates the world but …