Europe

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

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

Sir Nicholas Coleridge

i have often been the victim of swot analysis – away-days with colleagues where we are forced to reflect on strengths and weaknesses, opport...

Dr Mark Chapman

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

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...

Hugh Kerr

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

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

i have been reading of the oscar schindler-like exploits of my friend and herald director brooks newmark, who has not only taken in a ukrain...

William Stirling James

ben stephens reflects on the life, death, and afterlife of thomas becket, who rose to be henry ii’s lord chancellor and archbishop of canter...

Ben Stephens