Rome
Divinely decorative
Italian cabinets and tables decorated with inlaid semi-precious stones known as ‘pietre dure’ were a ‘must-have’ for English milords returning…
Occupational hazards
Roberto Rossellini shot his neorealist landmark Rome, Open City while the war still raged and rubble littered the freshly liberated…
Hadrian on the Somerset floods
Since the Somerset Levels are a flood plain, nature will flood it. Romans had no problems with that. Much of…
In praise of the Emperor
Roderick Conway Morris on the influence and legacy of Augustus
Beyond belief
Women bishops, gay marriage, and the death of Tory Anglicanism
A brainy delight
The Japanese are sometimes said to suffer from ‘outsider person shock’ (gaijin shokku) when travelling abroad. Recently in London we…
Long life
The people of Rome have always liked to believe the worst of their bishop. When I was a correspondent in…
