Vikings (at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia)
Blockbuster archaeology exhibitions are increasingly challenging to mount. Do you market the show as if it was (and in this case is) a...
Seventy-Five Years On
15 February – 75 years since Flying Fortresses obliterated the monastery of Monte Cassino, the home of Benedictinism. Today as we pass...
Alan Bennett and Brexit
Every year the Yorkshire treasure – the writer and playwright – Alan Bennett reads his previous year’s diary for The London Review of...
My struggle with Salvo
Salvo belongs to a world that is fast disappearing. Born to country folk, his life has almost entirely revolved around managing olive...
Would Julius Caesar be weeping?
Last night I had the privilege to listen to Mary Beard thinking out loud about ‘What’s the point of Ancient Rome’. Her central argument...
Voices from the Deep
Sean Kingsley’s new book is a gem of an archaeological story. The Battle of the Atlantic was in its second year when the British India...
