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10 British Things About Tulsa, OK | Anglophenia | BBC America

10 British Things About Tulsa, OK | Anglophenia | BBC America Things U.K., the White Lion pub, Scotfest, and cricket and rugby clubs are on the list....

Posted by Michael Bates on February 2, 2017 1:19 PM

Jo's Guide for Americans Visiting Britain

Jo's Guide for Americans Visiting Britain From 1996, Jo Miller presents a guide almost as accurate as Monty Python's Hungarian-to-English phrasebook. "Speaking of the British Library, you should know that it has recently moved to a new location at Kew....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 7, 2016 8:43 AM

Translation table explaining the truth behind British politeness becomes internet hit - Telegraph

Translation table explaining the truth behind British politeness becomes internet hit - Telegraph The British art of polite understatement -- intended to communicate subtly while preserving the dignity of all concerned -- only works when everyone knows the code. (The...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 5, 2013 11:56 PM

Translation table explaining the truth behind British politeness becomes internet hit - Telegraph

Translation table explaining the truth behind British politeness becomes internet hit - Telegraph The British art of polite understatement -- intended to communicate subtly while preserving the dignity of all concerned -- only works when everyone knows the code. (The...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 5, 2013 11:56 PM

Memories of Cranford - Francis Frith

Memories of Cranford - Francis Frith A website devoted to geographically linked memories, maps, and photos for the United Kingdom. This particular page has to do with the village of Cranford, in Hounslow, Middlesex, just northeast of Heathrow Airport. In...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 15, 2012 1:48 PM

A Quarter of: Retro British Sweets

A Quarter of: Retro British Sweets Gobstoppers, Turkish Delight, Soor Plooms, Victory V lozenges, Barratts Shrimps and hundreds of other varieties of old-time British candies. (But check with Things U.K. in Broken Arrow first.)...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 6, 2012 10:50 AM

HANSARD 1803-2005

HANSARD 1803-2005 A searchable database of two centuries' worth of speeches, debates, and reports in the British House of Commons and House of Lords....

Posted by Michael Bates on September 26, 2011 12:23 PM

A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research

A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research By Ian Gregory. Introductory info about GIS, methods of acquiring and converting data for inclusion, basic GIS functionality, representing time in GIS, producing maps from GIS, spatial analysis...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 8, 2011 11:40 PM

A vision of Britain through time

A vision of Britain through time Historical maps, historical travel writing, historical statistics depicting Britain's evolution between 1801 and 2001....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 8, 2011 10:26 PM

ConservativeHome's Platform: Maurice Saatchi: These are our values

ConservativeHome's Platform: Maurice Saatchi: These are our values A distillation of conservative policy values, in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies, founded by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph. "It is wrong that the majority of...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 7, 2009 7:07 PM

CentreRight: The Queen costs us each a mere 69p a year - and she wants all MPs to know it

CentreRight: The Queen costs us each a mere 69p a year - and she wants all MPs to know it Turns out that it's cheaper to be ruled by a monarch than a messiah....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 6, 2009 2:07 PM

The Baldwin Project: Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall

The Baldwin Project: Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall "A child's history of England from earliest legendary times delightfully retold. Beginning with the stories of Albion and Brutus, it relates all the interesting legends and hero tales in which...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 15, 2009 6:31 PM

Britain's Labour Lessons For Obama | Newgeography.com

Britain's Labour Lessons For Obama | Newgeography.com Joel Kotkin says the landslide defeat of Labour in local and European elections may mark "the decline of gentry liberalism." "Gentry liberalism - which reached its height in Britain earlier this decade and...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 9, 2009 11:31 AM

Childhood's End by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Summer 2008

Childhood's End by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Summer 2008 "A system of perverse incentives in a culture of undiscriminating materialism, where the main freedom is freedom from legal, financial, ethical, or social consequences, makes childhood in Britain a torment both...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 19, 2008 12:02 AM