The home of Shakespeare

The Fossies search for Shakespeare!

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January 5th 2007
Booking themselves another tour, not dissimilar to speed dating the English Heritage sites, Mum and Dad headed up to Oxford, past Stratford on Avon. Passing the school of Harry Potter, and the University of Tony Blair, they visited the house Shakespeare was born in and onto Warwick Castle which has been brought to life by Madame Tussauds figurines depicting life in the various centuries of the ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more