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Nov 29, 2024 | 
discoverbritain.com | Felicity Day
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
discoverbritain.com | Felicity Day
It was never intended to become a permanent fixture of the festive season, and in fact, one or two monarchs have devoutly wished it wasn’t. But in the nine decades since the very first was broadcast, the sovereign’s Christmas speech has become an institution. For many millions of Britons, turning on the TV at 3pm in the gathering gloom of Christmas afternoon to watch it has become as indispensable a part of the big day as the stuffed turkey or piles of presents under the tree.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
britain-magazine.com | Henrietta Easton |Felicity Day
Celebrating its centenary this year, Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House at Windsor Castle showcases an array of tiny treasures, from a fully strung miniature grand piano to a mini set of Crown Jewels inset with real diamonds Words by Felicity Day TheRoyal Collection might include Old Masters the size of a whole wall, toweringly tall sculptures, and dining tables long enough to seat a small army, but one of its best-known and best-loved treasures is a masterpiece on a miniature scale: Queen Mary’s...
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
britain-magazine.com | Henrietta Easton |Felicity Day
80 years ago, D-Day marked a turning point in the Second World War.Far from the Normandy beaches, a number of stately homes played a pivotal – and top-secret – role in wartime operationsWords by Felicity DayWhat happened on D-Day? ”D-Day has come,” a BBC newsreader told Britons early on 6 June 1944, Allied forces having launched the largest invasion in history across the Channel in Northern France.
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May 23, 2024 | 
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Felicity Day
When our ancestors headed to the polls in 1774, the general election could hardly have looked more different to the one now called for 4 July 2024. Instead of a single day, it took five weeks to conclude, different constituencies opening and closing their poll on dates of their choosing, some lasting mere hours, others four weeks.
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May 13, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Felicity Day
The carriages have rolled back into town for a new season of Bridgerton, and Penelope Featherington (played by Nicola Coughlan) is on the hunt for a husband. One who won’t interfere with her secret career as Lady Whistledown, author of the Ton’s favourite scandal sheet – a literary endeavour that is both thrillingly lucrative and a source of much-needed self-confidence.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Felicity Day
Christmas time 1798 saw Jane Austen attending an assembly ball in Basingstoke. “There were twenty Dances & I danced them all, & without any fatigue,” she boasted afterwards in a letter to her sister Cassandra. Both “fond of dancing” and good at it, the novelist was not unlike so many of our Georgian forebears, for whom dancing was a huge part of social life. In cities, small market towns, spas and seaside resorts, so many of their leisure hours were spent on the dancefloor.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
historyextra.com | Felicity Day
Unlikely as it seems that the aristocracy would take up tools like members of the labouring class and make something they had plenty of money to buy, they really did discover a passion for making their own footwear in the early 1800s. Fashion favouring simple, slipper-like shoes made of fabric or kidskin meant it was not too difficult for an amateur stitcher to progress, with the right tuition, from merely embroidering a shoe to making the whole thing.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
britain-magazine.com | Henrietta Easton |Felicity Day
With a new series of Bridgerton – and its world of fancy frocks and high-society balls – soon to hit our screens, we take a dance through the history of debutantesWords by Felicity DayIt was such a peculiar thing to have done,” recalled one of Britain’s last official debutantes, the 1,400 young women who swept a reverential curtsey to our late Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace in the spring of 1958, decked out in Dior-esque day dresses, demure hats and dainty gloves.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
britain-magazine.com | Felicity Day
London is full of intriguing and sometimes puzzling street names. We navigate the history of some of the more unusual examples…Words by Felicity DayStand in almost any spot in central London and you can see the layers of history around you: a modern building jostling for space with a medieval one; a cathedral spire competing with a skyscraper; a two-hundred-year-old statue standing watch over a station entrance.
