Dear Anglophiles: Here's a contest for all you rockers out there!  A change to win a trip to London and attend the Rolling Stones' "50 & Counting" concert AND to meet the Stones in person!  Even if you prefer Benjamin Britten to the Stones, winning would still be grand, right? 

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MEET THE ROLLING STONES IN LONDON SWEEPSTAKES

To enter the sweepstakes, click the link below, but beware!  To enter, you're required not only to give your contact info but also to answer a few simple trivia questions about the Rolling Stones (well, simple if you have followed the band over the years).  But fear not!  All the answers can be found on a timeline offered by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum.  To read the timeline, click HERE


ENTER SWEEPSTAKES HERE 
Only one entry allowed
Sweepstakes closes June 21, 2013


PRIZE: A 3-day, 2-night trip to London for two; round-trip airfare; two nights hotel accommodation; premium tickets to the Stones' Hyde Park concert on July 13, 2013; and chance to meet Mick, Keith, Charlie, and Ronnie in person!

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

London: Then and now! 

The wonderful video below was shot in London in the mid-1920s by Claude Friese-Greene, a British pioneer of colorized cinematography.  His method of colorizing film, called Friese-Greene Natural Colour--done during the age of silent movies--never caught on, and eventually was eclipsed by the Kenemacolor technique, also developed in Britain, and then by the Technicolor technique, developed in America.

If you're a fan of Downton Abbey (and who isn't?), the video is of special significance.  Downton's beginning episodes took place in 1916; when the show's third series airs this winter, the episodes will take place in the early 1920s, right before this footage was shot.  How delightful to have such insight into the time period of our beloved Downton!   

VIDEO: London in 1927  (Note: British Film Institute has corrected the date to 1926)

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

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BRITISH CLOTHING NEWS

• America's wildly popular clothier J Crew is opening in London!  The new shop will locate on Regent Street in November.  To read a Guardian article about J Crew opening in Britain and the company's quirky president and creative director, click HERE
  

• British fashion commentator and media personality Lauren Laverne discusses "rules of dressing,"  To read her article in the Guardian, click HERE
  

• The cycle of fashion: We love it today, we despise it tomorrow, and we buy it again 30 years later in a "vintage clothing store."  You know it's true!  James Laver, Britain's famed costume historian and former "Keeper of the Robes" at the Victoria and Albert Museum, coined Laver's Law to describe this phenomenon.  To read Laver's Law, click HERE
  

• How can I dress like an English girl? . . . You've been wondering, right?  To read a fun essay, in which an American in London tell us how, click HERE

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

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Dear Anglophiles:  I must share a fascinating obituary I read in the Economist about Bill O'Hagan, the "pioneer of Britain's sausage renaissance."  Bill, who got rid of the "nasties" in sausage and was crowed by the British Sausage Appreciation Society as the best sausage-maker in the country, made little money from his brilliant creations.  Sadly, a former employee who, allegedly, left with some of Bill's recipes, received all the fame and fortune.


To read the Economist obituary about Bill O'Hagan, click HERE


Would you like to try your own hand at sausage making?  If so, you're in luck!  I discovered a site that offers simple recipes for nearly every type of sausage one can imagine--and the recipes give both metric and U.S. measurements!

To see sausage recipes, click HERE

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

Dear Anglophiles: A fabulous new photography exhibit Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East is now showing at The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and will later exhibit in London, at Buckingham Palace.  If you won't be in the UK to partake of this breathtaking exhibit, you're still in luck!  A companion spin-off from the photography exhibit, entitled In a Prince's Footsteps, is now playing on BBC Radio 4, and we can all listen to the the latest episodes of the program online--and see some of the historic photographs, too! 


The PR blurb for the Cairo to Constantinople photography exhibit describes the exhibit as thus: "In 1862, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) was sent on a four-month educational tour of the Middle East, accompanied by the British photographer Francis Bedford (1815-94). This exhibition documents his journey through the work of Bedford, the first photographer to travel on a royal tour. . . . The tour took the Prince [and Bedford] to Egypt, Palestine and the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece."

The photo exhibit's companion spin-off, In a Prince's Footsteps, retraces the Prince's footsteps through the exotic Middle East, comparing what was seen by the Prince then to what one sees today.   (Hear the program episodes by clicking the links below!)


Cairo to Constantinople photo exhibit dates:
Palace of Holyroodhouse: March 8, 2013 - July 21, 2013
Buckingham Palace: October 31, 2014 - February 22, 2015

• To read about the Cairo to Constantinople photography exhibit, click HERE

• To listen to recent episodes of In a Prince's Footsteps, click HERE

• To view a Photo Gallery showing samples of Cairo to Constantinople's historic photographs, click HERE

• To watch video clips from In a Prince's Footsteps, click HERE

VIDEO: Host John McCarthy talks about the Cairo to Constantinople photo exhibit and his series, In a Prince's Footsteps

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

The Jewish Museum in Camden, London, is running a 10-week exhibition this summer featuring Amy Winehouse.  The exhibition will be entitled Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait and include "personal and intimate" items that have been assembled by Amy's brother, Alex, and his wife, Riva.

Exhibition dates: July 3 to September 15


To see the website for London's Jewish Museum, click HERE

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

Eighty-one years ago today, the famed aviator Amelia Earhart set off on her record-breaking, transatlantic flight.  She left Newfoundland and landed 15 hours later in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

To see a slideshow about Earhart's flight and arrival in Londonderry (which includes some historic, never-before-seen photographs), click HERE

As readers undoubtedly know, Earhart's plane went down on a later expedition as she tried flying around the world.  Her plane has never been found.  To read an article about the latest search efforts for Earhart's lost plane, click HERE

Londonderry holds an annual Earhart Festival.  This year it's running Saturday, May 18 - Sunday, May 26.  To read about the Earhart Festival, click HERE

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

Dear Anglophiles:  I received a link to a free, downloadable eBook that I must share with you; it's entitled Kilts & Tartans Made Easy.  This eBook, of course, made me think of lovely Scotland, so you'll find various links below that celebrate Scotland and its heritage.  Enjoy!

To read or download Kilts & Tartans Made Easy, click HERE

And just what is worn beneath those kilts, you ask?  To the rest of the world, this factoid is top secret . . . but we Anglophiles deserve to be in the know, right?  To discover the definitive answer, click HERE  (And please remember where you learned this bit of Anglophile trivia: right here on Anglophiles United!)

The national dish of Scotland is haggis, a meat and oatmeal concoction.  The more traditional recipes for haggis contain various ingredients that are difficult to find on this side of the pond, so I've found one for you that uses ingredients easily found in North America.  To view Haggis recipe, click  HERE

When one thinks of Scotland, one thinks of the wailful, haunting sounds of  bagpipes.  Below are two videos (a short version and a long version) featuring the best of the best in Scottish bagpipes.

VIDEO: Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo  (9-minute version)

VIDEO: Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (1-hour version)

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

Dear Anglophiles: The link below takes you to The Guardian, where you'll find fascinating drawings of five historical figures who are rendered as they might look if they were alive today.  (My personal favorites are the jaunty, hipster William Shakespeare and fashion-maven Marie Antoinette.)

To view drawings, click  HERE

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NOTICE: Dear Anglophiles, I am currently working on a large writing project and will be unable to blog for a while . . . however, I won't leave you hanging!  Each day I receive scores of interesting emails about Britain and British news, so my future blog posts, until I finish my writing project, will consist of links to some of these wonderful tidbits about Britain or videos that I find particularly interesting.  I hope you enjoy these nuggets!  (I also encourage readers to contact me about writing guest posts.)  Thank you so much for reading Anglophiles United!

The Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS) famed Chelsea Flower Show starts next week!  (May 21 - 25)


To read about the Chelsea Flower Show on the RHS website, click HERE




Below is a press release from the RHS that gives the history of the Chelsea Flower Show.   (As you can see, this was released for the 2010 show, but I'm presenting it so that you can read about the show's history.)

To watch an audio-slideshow covering the history of the Chelsea Flower Show, click HERE

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