In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, what did young aristocrats do once they finished their education? It was in fact not much different to what happens today. Many of the wealthy upper-class children took years out to travel Europe. This kind of travelling carried on all the way until the Napoleonic wars, evenContinue reading “The two sides of the Grand Tour- the British appreciation of Art and the real root of upper-class masculinity?”
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From Trenches to Tourism; a bird’s eye view of travel
In February 1929, Evelyn Waugh and Freya Stark documented their flight experiences, documenting their journey from London to Paris. Within the extracts, both writers have a tendency to firstly, explain the reasons for their travel and secondly, to describe their flight experience as a whole. Their narratives contain a lot of flamboyant and perhaps, exaggerated,Continue reading “From Trenches to Tourism; a bird’s eye view of travel”
No sex please we’re British: Victorian Honeymooners
In the winter and spring of 1873 Emily and John Dearman Birchall embarked on a five-month honeymoon trip to continental Europe, which Emily recorded in a diary. Despite the private nature of Emily’s writing (her diary was not edited and published until 1985) sex is strongly absent from the newlywed’s account. Perhaps this is unsurprising.Continue reading “No sex please we’re British: Victorian Honeymooners”
Britons Abroad 