Tag Archives: Remembering London
Vincent House, London, Is Closing
This morning brought an email from Richard Tomkins, general manager of Vincent House, a residential hotel in the Notting Hill neighborhood of London. I stayed there in the Fall and early Winter of 2000 while teaching in a study abroad … Continue reading
Remembering London – Part 6: An Early Epilogue
I returned to the United States in mid-December 2000 after a semester teaching abroad. I left a cold, drizzling London to land in ice-bound, 10-below-zero Chicago. Linda and I had planned to go straight to Brookfield Zoo to catch its … Continue reading
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BREXIT, Identity, and Global Flows
The English (at least the Anglo-Saxon variety) have had an uneasy relationship with the Continent since, say, 1066, so the recent BREXIT vote has been brewing awhile. Nativism, nationalism, even racism—all these and more have driven this vote, but perhaps … Continue reading →