Anglotopia

In this special bonus episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas launches an experimental new monthly format: a London events guide covering what’s actually on in the city this month. June is arguably London’s finest month — 16 to 17 hours of daylight, the longest evenings of the year, and an events calendar absolutely bursting at the seams. Jonathan walks through ev...

Perched dramatically on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment, with sweeping views across Gloucestershire to the Mendip Hills and the River Severn, Newark Park is one of England’s most atmospheric historic houses. But what makes this Grade I-listed building truly remarkable isn’t just its 500-year architectural history—it’s the story of how an American from Texas fell in love ...

In August 1958, a florist named Winifred Naomi “Cockney Kitty” Wilson died. Ten miles from her flower stall on Norfolk Street, Drury Lane Theater was playing a musical whose heroine was loosely based on Wilson. The musical, in its fourth month on the West End, was My Fair Lady. When Wilson passed, she fell into obscurity. Indeed, she was obscure enough that I ...

From his single shop, established in 1859, Thomas Burberry, who invented and patented wool gabardine in 1879, built an empire of water-re...

There are cars that you drive, and then there are cars that you own because they make you feel like the person you wish to become. Aston Martin occupies that peculiar realm between achievement and aspiration, between automotive reality and cultural mythology. The brand has declared bankruptcy seven times, yet it survives. It has been owned by various British industrialists, b...