THE post-colonial cleansers have had a busy year in Hong Kongremoving the symbols of British...Vines, Stephen
The conscious branding of the country as ‘cool Britannia’ now looks a little dated, but nonetheless the underlying reality remains the same. Good restaurants flourish and fashion, music, nightlife and style are all fields in which the UK can now hold its own with the world’s best. ...
After visiting The Royal Yacht Britannia we then travelled on to Holyroodhouse (huh! Since when did a castle become a house?). It’s the Queen’s residence when she is in Scotland, and of course no visit to Edinburgh is complete without a visit to Edinburgh Castle. We covered these three...
The history of Rome, both the Republic and the Empire, defined the history of Western Civilization for an 800 year period. Rome grew to control areas from the North Sea to the Meditteranean Sea, with the territory as far north as Britannia, and as far east as Judea....
My final three arena visits were solo trips. I travelled to the land of my grandfather for the two amphitheatres located in Wales. The Romans moved into this fabulous part of the UK around 48 ACE, but it wasn’t called Wales then, just a part of Britannia Major. My first port of cal...
What if the Britannia Empire (which we are to assume was based on the old British Empire?) never lost the US War of Independence? This is what Code Geass partially explores as we see an alternate future of what would happen if that Empire never dissolved. So, we got mechs, bizarre powe...
At its zenith, the Roman Empire controlled all the territories around the Mediterranean, most of Western Europe (Gaul and Hispana) as well as half of the island of Britannia. With its well-maintained roads and guarded borders, a Roman citizen could safely travel from one end of the empire ...
❌ FALSEThe Crownshows Lord Mountbatten on holiday at Classiebawn Castle, Co Sligo, on the morning of August 27, 1979, about to set off on a fishing trip with his daughter and other members of his family. He writes Prince Charles a letter urging him to find “some sweet and innocent...
Gregory Meadows: The way the brands behave now will determine future support and client perception. In the UK, Britannia Hotels, Liverpool Football Club, and the Weatherspoons pub chain, have all had to make humiliating u-turns over rotten decisions they made with regards to care of their staf...
predecessor Trajan, and “decided to set the borders” – literally, in some cases, with wooden poles at sites in Germany, or with stone in Britannia. Where those poles rotted thousands of years ago, the wall is still standing: “A great visual reminder” of the Roman empire, says ...