In 1904, Helen Currer Briggs, the Lady Mayoress of Leeds paved the way to providing free holidays for young children whose family income was less than a single pound. Since then it has been the right of every new Lady Mayoress to become the president of the charity.

The biogenetically engineered Tyrannosaurus regina of Jurassic Park (1993) was only the most eagerly awaited and attended of a slew of monstrous women who ruled the nation’s movie screens in the 1980s and 1990s. The two decades brought forth dozens like her: the rapacious queen of Aliens (1986), the scheming sea-witch Ursula of The Little Mermaid (1989),[…]

He stepped quiveringly forward.

English people are travel junkies, but Americans hardly ever leave their state.