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What actually turned a teenage aristocrat into a "finished" gentleman in the 1700s? Why did one incredibly long, incredibly expensive holiday end up inventing the whole idea of "the West"? And why can you still trace a straight line from that holiday to Frankenstein, the contents of half of Britain's country houses, and this year's tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote?
Send a nineteen-year-old aristocrat to Europe for three years with a credit line and a chaperone paid to keep him out of trouble, and what comes home is part fashion victim, part looter, part accidental philosopher — the invention of modern Western identity, Frankenstein, and a culture war about "the Continent" that's still running.
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[] Peter admits his own anti-aging anxieties before Afua reveals what the new series is really about
[] Meet "The Original Gap Year" — and the ex-priest travel blogger who coined the term
[] The bear leader — the 18th-century minder whose entire job was damage control
[] The macaronis — home from Italy in silk and powder, mocked as "un-British"
[] Standing where Gibbon stood — how one ruin becomes an entire theory of civilisation
[] A wrecked holiday, a volcano, and a ghost story that becomes Frankenstein
[] Ten years since the Brexit vote — and the Grand Tour's fingerprints are still on it
[] Where Chatsworth's marble busts actually came from
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Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas: Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com
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