Sep/Oct 2023

Britain

The official magazine of Visit Britain

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Editor’s Letter
Heritage cities are not in short supply in Britain, but I confess to having a soft spot for Bath. From the steamy Roman Baths and sweeping Georgian terraces to the modern-day delights of pampering spas and afternoon teas, it’s surely one of Britain’s
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Editor Natasha Foges Art Editor Petra Manley-Leach Assistant Editor Henrietta Easton Group Sales Director Catherine Chapman Head of Sales Operations Jodie Green Advertising Manager Daisy Welch Senior Sales Executive Melissa Arancio Managing Director
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Land of Enchantment
Pembrokeshire, the beautiful coastal county at Wales’s southwestern tip, feels wonderfully Welsh, with its green lanes and wild landscapes, sleepy villages and friendly locals who like to stop and chat. What few visitors realise is that an invisible
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Your Letters
Your article in the July issue [Vol 91 Issue 3] on the plays of William Shakespeare captured well the astonishing breadth the Bard’s impact on so many cultures over the last four centuries. Surely one of the most unusual productions of any Shakespear
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The Bulletin
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. So goes the rhyme about Henry VIII’s sixth wives, each with their own tragic story to tell. But it’s the sixth and last, Katherine Parr, the survivor, that history remembers the least. A new fil
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Pensioners On Parade
Beefeaters. Pearly kings. Bobbies on the beat. London has many ‘living landmarks’, as delightful to catch a glimpse of as Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral or Nelson’s Column. Few, however, come with as much pride as the Chelsea Pensioner. Usual
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Dawn Of A dynasty
When Henry Tudor clinched victory over King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, he was said to be “without power, without money, without right to the crown of England, and without any reputation but what his person and deportment obt
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Bed & blooms
Garden-lovers rhapsodise about The Newt in Somerset, a bucolic estate set around a handsome Georgian manor. Successive green-fingered enthusiasts have shaped the gardens over two centuries, from the Victorian horticulturalist Margaret Hobhouse to Pat
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Treasure SEEKERS
Back in 2021, amid post-Christmas Covid restrictions, maths teacher Mike Burke made a discovery that would cast a new light on history. He was doing a sweep of the front garden of his home in St Just, Cornwall, with the metal detector his wife had gi
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Revitalising the Victorians
We tend to think we know the Victorians: sombre, sanctimonious and easily scandalised, constrained by tight corsets and stiff upper-lips; their Britain one of smog, slums and dark Satanic mills, reigned over by a mournful sovereign. It’s how we see t
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A Luxury Stay At Historic Hever Castle
BRITAIN magazine has teamed up with Hever Castle & Gardens to offer one lucky reader and their guest the chance to win an overnight stay in the luxury Bed and Breakfast in the grounds of the castle in Kent – the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, second
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Capturing Kent’s castles
It was King Henry VIII who first called Kent ‘the garden of England’, supposedly after being impressed by a plate of ripe Kentish cherries. Just a day’s ride from London and with its miles of pretty countryside, the county made the perfect playground
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Spirit Of Invention
Two hundred years ago, in 1823, Scottish clerk-turned-chemist Charles Macintosh patented a new process for a waterproof fabric. He had been looking for uses for waste-products from gasworks, and using rubber dissolved in naphtha (a substance derived
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Eastbourne
While racy Brighton tends to grab all the attention among England’s south coast resorts, Eastbourne has always been the quieter, more genteel neighbour: an old-fashioned place of ice cream parlours, strolls along the pier and deckchairs on the beach.
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Bath
Start your day at the place where it all began. The Romans built a magnificent complex of baths here in around 70 AD, arranged around a sacred spring and a temple dedicated to the goddess Sulis Minerva. Walk along the time-worn paving slabs that bord
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A Day With… ANDREW JAMIESON
BRITAIN: When did your passion for heraldry start? AJ: It started when I was about six years old. I used to watch old films like The Black Shield of Falworth and Knights of the Round Table, and the heraldry on the horses and shields and the coats of
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A Pint-sized Pub
There are many compelling reasons to visit the Suffolk foodie town of Bury St Edmunds. Tourists come to see the ruins of the Abbey built to house the remains of St Edmund, martyred King of the East Angles and patron saint of medieval England. They co

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