Mudlarking
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
