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Architecture

Norman Wisdom
The Normans embellished Saxon churches but they also built their own, and there is nowhere better to admire their artistry than Herefordshire
Simon Heffer

Pevsner’s Monument
Nikolaus Pevsner was the man who catalogued England. His project is well worth another read
Simon Heffer

Castles of the Imagination
From Wales to Syria, fortresses are monuments to an age of chivalry — but some are only castles in the air
Simon Scott Plummer

Berlin and Cologne: A Tale of Two German Cities

‘Now that Berlin is officially one of the coolest places in Europe, many have developed a peculiar sense of being German - a form of confidence, or nonchalance at least, about their nationality’

Mara Delius

Finders Keepers
Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities edited by James Cuno
John Adamson

From Treblinka to Tannenberg
A tour through Eastern Poland uncovers the wreckage of German military might
Simon Scott Plummer

Faces that Don’t Quite Fit
When it came to painting portraits, Constable struggled to emulate his mastery of landscape
Michael Prodger

Rebuilding our Heritage
The Vivat Trust conserves and restores the smaller historic buildings that are overlooked by larger organisations
Georgina Blackwell

Il Miglior Fabbro
Five hundred years after his birth, Andrea Palladio continues to influence architecture
Bruce Boucher

Prague: Diary
‘The post-1989 temptation in Prague has been two-fold. The first has been to legislate the totalitarian past out of existence, the second has been to copy the liberal West blindly at a lag of 20 years’
Lesley Chamberlain

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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