A record 6,100 Americans applied for British citizenship last year, but fleeing Donald Trump's US is not the only reason.

they blow east to west. People back in England noted the quirky new ways Americans were speaking English within a generation of the colonists’ arrival. Over time, the changes went beyond accent ...

Writing home to England, a captain on one of the Royal Navy ships patrolling around Halifax complained: “I am really ashamed of the narrow, selfish light in which [the Americans] have regarded ...