Culture

on 1 april 1957, the bbc current affairs programme panorama presented a three-minute documentary item showing a swiss family, in t...

Jeremy Haselock

heritage: a history of how we conserve our past james stourton head of zeus, £40, 496 pages james stourton chooses a quotation on the theme ...

William Cash

english victorian churches: architecture, faith and revival james stevens curl john hudson publishing, £50, 240 pages this handsome little b...

Michael Hodges

confessions: life re-examined edward stourton penguin doubleday, £20, 304 pages edward stourton, the distinguished broadcaster from an emine...

Sir Nicholas Coleridge

with due deference to the originator of the latest foray in to the world of father brown, i doubt many devotees of gk chesterton’s clerical ...

Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman

it was thursday 18 august, 2005, and we were on the banks of the rhine in cologne. hand in hand, my friend and i had run, squealing, back an...

Margaret Nicholson

roald dahl: teller of the unexpected matthew dennison head of zeus, £20, 264 pages perhaps my favourite roald dahl story – and one not, alas...

Alexander Larman

catherine pepinster hodder and stoughton, £25, 352 pages on october 11, 1521 leo x con- ferred the title fidei defensor on henry viii for hi...

William Davage

my father and i have a long-running minor disagreement about which is the worst month. for me, it’s january. you’re back to work after chris...

Niall Gooch

on the solemnity of mary, mother of god, mother winsome sbvm reflects on the ups and downs of the community life that she has led since she ...

Mother Winsome