Recent content by ryeseagull

I've lived in the U.S. for 12 years and am a dual citizen. If the right position opened up in the U.K., I would consider going back, but I am quite happy here. I probably prefer visiting "home" rather than living there. I work in higher education and the system here is far more meritocratic.

Neil Tennant had a house in Rye. I waited on him and Janet Street-Porter. She ordered a creme caramel, which was highly amusing given her horrid voice.

Look it up on their website to confirm.

An ancient microfilm reader on a cart.

I grew up in England and left when I was 21. I have spent the last eleven years abroad, so I will answer this by what I miss and don't miss: I miss the tradition/history/sense of place. I do not miss the cramped space in which people tend to live.

I had dinner at Godfrey Daniel's house once.

I think Postgraduate degrees are a different kettle of fish. I am not sure that the Student Loans Company offer loans for postgraduate education. I don't remember them doing so in 2001, but that was over a decade ago.

As a US historian, it would have to be the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Or, Thomas Jefferson doing his slave, Sally Hemmings.

Not in Pullman, Washington it doesn't! San Francisco might just be a different story.

I used to live in Reno, which by American standards is close to the Bay Area. San Francisco is very cosmopolitan. And bloody expensive. I would ask your company to help with relocation. A simple e-mail to some of the local employees with likely answer many of your questions.

20. I got the dog collar one wrong. I am a History professor, after all.

John Westcott.

My son is the first in my male line not to be born in Sussex since the eighteenth-century. Or, as I like to put it, since before the United States was a country. I bucked the trend to be born in Hastings, instead of Rye.

My wife and I managed it. And were went to University on opposite sides of the Atlantic in an era before webcams. It just meant that I spend all my loan money on prostitutes...

Phil Collins.