It's always been my experience that British people are intensely proud of their history and heritage, stretching back into the ancient, unrecorded past; yet, they seem strangely oblivious to the "every day-ness" of it, absentmindedly dropping a letter into a Victorian postbox. All the postboxes in the UK belong to the sitting monarch and bear the royal crest of whomever is on the throne at the time, whether Victoria Regina, Edward VII, George VI, or Elizabeth II. If you spend your life reading and researching the Victorians, coming across something marked "VR" is a little more exciting than most people find mail boxes. Walking around Oxford is like a hundred nerdy-Christmases rolled into one.
Handsome. I was in Oxford for three days in the summer of 2010 and loved it. So, when are you going to tell us if this was just a vacation or a precursor to your next studies?
ReplyDeleteI managed to squeeze in a couple of hours of vacation every day, but it was a very busy work trip. I was speaking at a conference on travel literature.
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