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Turn the pages of the guide.
 
What is a Personal Planner?
Other Resources
Trigger: an e-zine from the UK that covers film, music, and fringe culture -- a great read.
Madame Tussauds: the famous wax museum as an equally bizarre web page.
The Monarchs of Great Britain: how many wives did Henry VIII have? Find out at this fun tour through the English monarchy.
Welcome to Britain: the best site for tourist information covering all of the United Kingdom.
British Broadcasting Corporation: the
homepage for the BBC.
Highlander Web Magazine: a magazine covering recent happenings in Scotland. Well-written articles and extensive reference materials.
Phreak: a Web hub for underground 'zines and their ilk.
Peace
Now: a site dedicated to finding a peacefull ending "The Troubles" in
Northern Ireland.
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The Berkeley Guides:
Berkeley Guide to Europe:
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Never mind whether you've been to Great Britain before--for the English-speaking traveler, to come here is to come back here. If there is a sense of tradition we share, vague and nostalgic or bitter and mocking, it was born in large part here. Romantic poetry, the King James Bible, Adam Smith's vision of capitalism, Charles Darwin's revolution, and that damned Puritan work ethic are all legacies of the Commonwealth, elements of the parent culture from which an empire sprang. Whether we come here with enthusiasm or misgivings, many of us come to Britain seeking our history.
There is indeed a palpable sense of history here. Stone circles off the main roads hint at prehistoric civilizations and ways of life we can only guess about. Westminster Abbey's worn stone floors have seen just about every kind of human footwear, from noble slippers to aerobics trainers. Some pubs even have signs over their doors saying "Rebuilt 1618" and "Founded ad 1400." Yet if these places inspire an eerie sense of déjà vu, it's because we've seen them before, courtesy of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, and a great host of others. Their stories and fairy tales have been handed down to us since we were tots, and here they are--or at least, here are their remains.
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