After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
The Los Angeles Times recently reported (29 May 2009) that eBay has reduced the demand for looted antiquities. The story is based…
Morris and the PrinceHaving just written a new guide to Kelmscott Manor, your diarist has a growing admiration for William Morris, whose…
One should not start a project that one cannot complete. Having started writing a blog on the first day of my pilgrimage…
‘BIN09′ is the site code for this year’s season of the major new field project at the Roman fort of Binchester, run…
The Hadrian’s Wall pilgrimage is going well. The Pilgrimage is one of the great events of British archaeology. It began…
In view of the current debate about the rights and wrongs of suicide, Terry Jones in his recent book on ‘Barbarians’…
Deja vu The Times published a letter on 2 June 2009 signed by Professors Martin Biddle and Brian Fagan, who called on…
If your accounts for the year are not quite as good as you might wish– if, for instance, you make a loss…
Jargon: which words would you ban?The Local Government Association has published a list of words and phrases that it thinks council staff…
Let it growOne can only applaud the National Trust’s decision to create 1,000 allotments within its disused walled gardens and on land…