After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
Geography made a unitary empire embracing the Mediterranean and temperate Europe inherently unstable; but the wreckage of the Roman Empire contained the…
‘England’s Past for Everyone’ is a groundbreaking new project set up by one of our most venerable institutions, the Victoria County History.…
Let it growOne can only applaud the National Trust’s decision to create 1,000 allotments within its disused walled gardens and on land…
‘England’s Past for Everyone’ is a groundbreaking new project set up by one of our most venerable institutions, the Victoria County History.…
When, at the IFA’s Liverpool conference in April 2004, I argued for a festival of archaeology to compare with the superb festivals…
After only two years, we are already beginning to establish some Festival traditions. One is to tackle a ‘difficult’ subject. Last year…
We think of villas as the grand farmhouses of the Roman countryside. But were they? Bryn Walters takes a fresh look at…
When is a Roman villa not a villa? The term villa covers many different structures, ranging from a palatial country house down…
We think of villas as the grand farmhouses of the Roman countryside. But were they? Bryn Walters takes a fresh look at…
In the second part of our mini-series based on Barry Cunliffe’s new book Europe between the Oceans, our focus is the period…