Simon Courtauld

The radical history of The Spectator

26 April 2020 5:53 pm

A newspaper – it would be more than 100 years before it became a magazine – calling itself a spectator…

Trains in Spain

14 October 2017 9:00 am

The first railway line in Spain, from Barcelona to Mataro a few miles up the coast towards the French border,…

The demise of bullfighting has been predicted for 100 years, yet it lives on

Bullfighting

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Looking at the programme for the feria of San Isidro in Madrid this month (bullfights are being held on 31…

Rock of ages: three centuries of British occupation

Gibraltar

1 November 2014 9:00 am

The British overseas territory of Gibraltar, or, as some would have it, the wart on the bottom of the Iberian…