Hotel Britannia: A seaside story of splendour, decline and national identityA state of the nation look at modern Britain through the lens of a lasting emblem of grandeur, and decline Today there is no one alive who remembers what it felt like when Great Britain was the richest country in the world. But there is a way to access that feeling. You just walk along the seafront of the medium sized coastal town of Scarborough, and look up. Hotel Britannia reveals the true story of faded British glory through the iconic Grand Hotel

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\"Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise

Her courage

brave teamwork

He’s got nothing left to lose

day by day

In the world that created the Bible

the hypnotic repetition of daily news items and even the multitude of visual sources of information all make it difficult for the voice of reason to be heard

when he was just a restless eighteen-year-old hungry for adventure

Fifteenth-Century Life: Experience the frequent instability of 15th-century England

”—Lloyd Alexander

vulnerable storytelling that brings the research to life