From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 63 Some people spend years plotting their move to Britain. They read the guidebooks, save the money, study the visa rules, and rehearse the dream a thousand times before they…
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Country Life’s Book of Dogs: A Celebration of Britain’s Most Aristocratic Canines
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 68 There is a particular kind of Britishness that cannot be fully explained without dogs. It lives in the muddy boot rooms of country houses, in the ankles of a…
The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 65 Ask most people whether British English is older than American English, and they will answer without hesitation: of course it is. Britain came first, America came later, and everything…
Inside the Britannic: Exploring Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 62 Most people know the story of the Titanic by heart: the maiden voyage, the iceberg, the fifteen hundred lives lost on a single cold Atlantic night. Far fewer know…
Anglotopia Unfiltered: 50 Episodes of British Travel Wisdom
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 50 Fifty episodes is a milestone worth marking, and Jonathan Thomas and his wife Jacqueline knew exactly how they wanted to celebrate reaching it: by handing the microphone, at least…
The Enchantment of the Cotswolds: An Insider’s Guide to England’s Most Beloved Countryside
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 51 There are corners of England that seem almost designed to make an American swoon, and the Cotswolds sit near the very top of that list. Honey-colored stone, rolling hills,…
Behind the Scenes of a Boutique British Tour Company
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 59 There are Anglophiles, and then there is Mary Valentine. For nearly two decades she has been leading small groups of fellow Britain-lovers around England, Scotland, and Wales, not to…
Four Decades of Beatles Tourism: A Guide’s Journey Through Liverpool
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 60 Some people fall in love with a band. Charles Rosenay fell in love with a city. On February 9th, 1964, a young boy in Connecticut sat in front of…
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew for Britain in World War II
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 56 During the darkest days of the Second World War, a remarkable group of American women pilots crossed the Atlantic to join Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary. Their job was to…
The Man Who Walked the Entire Coast of Britain: Quentin Lake’s 11,000-Kilometer Journey
From the Anglotopia Podcast: Episode 54 Some journeys are measured in miles. This one is measured in years, in worn-out shoes, in the thousands of nights spent under canvas, and in the roughly 200,000 photographs…
