“The Embarkation of George the Fourth from Whitehall”, John Constable’s largest ever painting has recently been restored and is now available for public viewing at Anglesey Abbey. Those living in Great Britain can see a television documentary about this process on More 4. The painting itself, which is eight feet wide and 6 feet tall,

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is in the news recently as a museum dedicated to his works in Rotherhithe has been granted planning permission to build an extension. A new pavilion will link the existing old Engine House and the Sinking Shaft and increase capacity.  There will be room for a café and a shop in the

An historic eighteenth century fort, which was built in the grounds of Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire had fallen into a sad state of disrepair but thanks to money from Historic England the masonry can be repaired and the whole edifice brought up to the standard it was when the fifth Lord Byron built it in

On 21st October 2022 a statue to the Romantic poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge will be unveiled in Ottery St Mary, a town of around five thousand souls ten miles east of Exeter the county town. This is to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. You can’t help feeling that, as he died in

Well not really, he has been dead for a while, but Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas in the United States are currently holding an exhibition about “Paradise Lost”. It is being shown at the Quayle Bible Library from September 11th 2021 until the 15th May 2022 and is entitled “On the Road from Paradise: John Milton’s

There’s an exhibition currently on at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum entitled “Alice, Curiouser and Curiouser” which is getting great reviews. It looks like a visual tour de force and will appeal to all ages. It is on until the 31st December 2021 if you would like to visit. There’s a sampler on their website

Well it is 21 years since I started Britain Unlimited so it has finally come of age. Yes I am old enough to know when 21 was still a thing. Anyway, I have decided after all this time to start a blog on themes to do with the British people covered in this site and