Echoes of the 1930s
The aggressive attack on the Central European University (CEU) at Budapest by the Hungarian government concerns us all. It is a...
Harry Shindler - My War is Not Over
Harry is in his 97th year and is as indefatigable as ever. Following the showing of the film at AUR about him, this veteran of the 1944...
Running Rome
My daughter ran the Rome marathon. The course took in all the sights, including the Pope giving mass. It began and ended on the Via Fori...
Dame Drue Heinz
I learnt of Dame Drue’s death aged 103 on Friday. I only knew her slightly, the head of a great literary foundation, with a scrutinizing...
AUR’s Roman origins?
A great hole has suddenly opened up in AUR’s library garden. A geo-radar survey by our adjunct professor, Dr. Matteo Barone, shows it’s...
Goodbye to the Vikings
A researcher for a film company has called me about the Vikings. The company want to make a series of drama-documentaries and the genial...
Archaeologists at war
I picked up Ben Pastor’s The Road to Ithaca (Bitter Lemon Press, 2015) idly thinking it was about Ithaca (because I have a fondness for...
The First World War Fort At Mittelberg, Sexten/Sesto
Ignoring the light, drifting snow, I climbed up to the Mittelberg fortress at 1,575m. that commands the Sesto/Sexten valley and looks...
Mediterranean happiness: ‘ A Charmed Life’
Formulaic greetings launched the opening of this evocative, opulent exhibition in the British Museum about the painters, Ghika and John...
Stourhead, Wiltshire
Decline and fall, renaissances, wars, conflict pass over Italy like fleeting clouds because its global brand is a country of peerless...
