Tag: England

A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.

To catch a serial killer.

“Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”

What happens when you’re not different just for the sake of being different.

How a band seemingly out of step with its times outlasted so many of its indulgent, in-step contemporaries.

The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.

The Buzzcocks’ enduring influence might have surprised punk frontman Pete Shelley, but not his fans.

At nearly age 70, Charles is the “longest-waiting heir apparent in history.”

Distraught over a sick or disabled child, parents would torture — sometimes even kill — what they believed to be a malevolent stand-in for a stolen baby.

Russian money is parked in English real estate and other assets, but is it too late to purge its influence on Britain?

In Tudor England’s big-sleeved game of thrones, winning and dying were not mutually exclusive.

A new breed of charlatan posts images of their fake opulent lifestyles on Instagram to lure followers into investing in sketchy financial products.

While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.

Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.

An Englishman searches for what’s left of Providence, a failed Puritan colony in the Caribbean.

Unraveling the mystery of the shirtless hippie who danced at countless rock shows in the UK during the last quarter of the 20th century.

After a few rich outsiders bought the Island of Eigg, the islanders bought their island back.

Why were we personally affected by a woman few knew and even fewer ever understood?

How gentrification, apathy, and government negligence failed the residents of Grenfell Tower.

Frank Matt, inspired by PJ Harvey’s 2011 album Let England Shake, shares an article that resonates for each song on the record.

Tom Lamont’s exhaustive 2015 deep-dive on the death of pub culture in England is worth re-reading, considering the role a bar plays within a community.

At The Independent, Michele Kirsch reflects on working as a cleaner in London, England, and the fascinating, unspoken social rules that keep the cleaner-cleanee relationship “shipshape and Bristol-fashion.”

From her education to the careful plans for her funeral, seven stories on the long-reigning monarch.

At BBC News, Jon Manel traces the final journey of an unnamed man, found dead in Saddleworth Moor in Northern England.

On top of the regular flow of customers, motorway accidents would send streams of cars piling in: coaches full of school trips, families desperate to get home. A service station is not the type of place you’d expect to have regulars, but there were plenty at our Little Chef. The toast lady who came in […]

The last death of a Monarch was in 1952, and the BBC stopped all comedy for a set period of mourning after the announcement was made. The Daily Mail reports that the BBC plans to do the same again today, cancelling all comedy until after the funeral.