From London fog to Irish hills, from Scottish lochs to Welsh choirs, the United Kingdom has given the world
voices that wrestle with freedom, faith, wit, science, and song. These Daily
Celebrations honor actors, leaders, inventors, explorers, musicians, and writers whose lives and work
sprang from those islands and rippled out across the world.
As novelist Elizabeth Bowen once wrote, “To leap is not only to leap; it is to hit the ground some whe re.” These celebrations gather some of the places where those leaps have landed in art, music, discovery, leadership, and the life of the mind.