ROME’S SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN I
It is too easy to take Rome for granted. Huge monumental ruins dwarfing the smaller details soon become the stuff of living or visiting...
In praise of Bellum Aquilarum - Onlus
Sexten lies in the Alto Adige today, but it was on the Austrian front in 1915 when war broke out between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and...
Dog poop depositories – a sign of things to come?
Fifty-three weeks since I was last on this old frontier line between Austria and Italy. Fort Mitterberg was constructed in the 1870s to...
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...
The hidden pleasure of Civita Castellana
Civita Castellana appears to be a Lazio town lost inside a web of new roads. Appearances can deceive. The old centre lies beyond an...
