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How to Build a Proper Full English Breakfast in America – The 5 Pillars of the Perfect Fry-up

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The full English is one of the great glories of British life, and this week Jonathan takes the whole plate apart piece by piece with Lucy Pask of Jolly Posh…
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Yesterday's Sunday Post Was Incomplete! Here is Jane Austen at Home with Laura Porter in its entirety!

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Editor's Note: It came to our attention this morning that Memberful did not send the complete article for yesterday's Sunday Post about Jane Austen's Home. So, we are sending the…

Hadrian’s Wall vs. the Camino: Two Long-Distance Walkers Compare Notes with SplashMaps

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Jonathan does something different this week. Having finally walked the Hadrian's Wall Path coast to coast earlier this year, he sits down with David Overton of Splash Maps — who…
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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November – A History of The Gunpowder Plot for Americans with Historian Rebecca Rideal

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Remember, remember the fifth of November — and then try explaining to an American why a country celebrates a failed act of terrorism with fireworks and toffee apples. Historian Rebecca…
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Sunday Post: Where Edward the Longshanks Died and Lay in at the Edge of the World

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This week, we visit St Michael's, Burgh-by-Sands: a fortified church built from a Roman fort, at the edge of England, where the Hammer of the Scots lay in state.

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What’s On in London in November 2026 – Bonfires, New Museum, Christmas Lights, and Autumn Joy

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November might be the most underrated month in London's calendar, and this year it has the biggest museum opening in years. The London Museum opens at Smithfield on 28 November…
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All the Queen’s Men: Elizabeth I and Courtship as Foreign Policy With Historian Sophie Shorland

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Historian Sophie Shorland returns to the podcast — last time for The Lost Queen, her book on Catherine of Braganza, the forgotten queen who helped bring tea to Britain…
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Your November British streaming calendar is here

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The November "What's British on Streaming" calendar is attached — two pages, ready to print, or keep it on your phone and stop wondering what's on.

Page one is…

Sunday Post: Lie Down and Look Up - Visiting The Last Room Charles I Walked Through to His Death

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A rainy afternoon at Banqueting House, the last of the lost Palace of Whitehall and the one room in the world where Rubens's ceiling still hangs where he meant it…

Strictly Jane Austen Episode 6: The King of Bath – Beau Nash – The Man Who Talked an Entire City Into Existence

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This is part of a special Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen.
It is one of Jonathan's favorite kinds of story: the man who talks an entire…
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The Church in the Middle of a Field Next to Hadrian's Wall With a 1500 Year History

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This week, I share the story of one of the most interesting places I came across on my walk across England - Heavenfield, St Oswald's Church, and a thirteen-hundred-year-old pilgrimage…

I Walked Hadrian’s Wall Coast to Coast — Here’s What It Was Actually Like – Blisters, Meat Pies & Beautiful Countryside

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Jonathan is finally ready to talk about it. After fifteen years of wanting to, a year of preparation and nine days of walking, he completed the Hadrian's Wall Path National…
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Strictly Jane Austen Episode 5: America’s Love Affair with Jane Austen — One of Literature’s Strangest Romances

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This is Episode 5 of a special six-part Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen.

It is, when you stop to think about it, one of the strangest…
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