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Blenheim Palace is undertaking vital conservation work on one of its most prominent features: the Turret Clock that has kept time over the Great Courtyard for more than three centuries.

The palace has partnered with The Cumbria Clock Company on an eight-week project to dismantle the clock’s internal mechanism and transport it to their workshop for cleaning and repa...


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Did you know that in addition to saving the free world, Churchill was also an accomplished painter? In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas sits down with Dr. Lucy Davis — curator of paintings at the Wallace Collection in London and co-curator of Winston Churchill the Painter, the first major retrospective of Churchill’s art in over 60 years and t...


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Great Events in Colonial American History – Article 19

The British Context

The burning of HMS Gaspee in June 1772 was one of the most audacious acts of colonial defiance before the Revolution—a direct assault on the Royal Navy that challenged British sovereignty in the most dramatic fashion imaginable. That the perpetrators were never punished revealed the fun...


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A love letter written by Adrienne de Lafayette to her husband, the Marquis de Lafayette, during the American Revolutionary War has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew—and it will go on public display for the first time this summer.

The letter never reached its intended recipient. Written in 1778 from Bordeaux as Adrienne prepared to leave the city, it w...


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Short answer: Not the summer.

Long answer: It depends.

The cheapest time to visit the UK is January through March (winter), excluding the Christmas period (late December to early January), which is peak season. November is also reasonably cheap as a pre-Christmas shoulder month. The logic is simple: winter weather is cold and wet, school holidays are limi...


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