A report on the British Museum’s exhibition A New World: England’s first view of America, featuring the16th century illustrations of America
Royal Academy of Arts: Opulence and Anxiety, Landscape Paintings
Compton Verney, the Grade I-listed mansion house near Stratford-upon-Avon, recently opened as an art and exhibition gallery. It is currently hosting a major exhibition Opulence and Anxiety: Landscape paintings from the Royal Academy of Arts. The paintings on show date from the later 18th century until the present and are by artists including Constable through… [Continue Reading]
Bisitun, Iran
Bisitun, site of a rock-cut relief that enabled the decipherment of cuneiform Babylonian has been made into a World Heritage monument
London 1606 to Virginia 1607
The early history of the first English settlement in America – as revealed in a new exhibition at London’s Museum in Docklands
Fredriksnopel, Denmark’s First Plantation in Ghana
A sherd of superb pottery reveals evidence for Denmark’s original colonial presence in Ghana
Polynesia: Art and Divinity
What is taboo? The current exhibition at the British Museum reveals all by looking at Art and Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860
Ruins Reused
If your Christmas fare needs to be digestible, stimulating, with a touch of religion, this is the book for you – even if ‘ruins’ have shades of Christmas Past. Michael Thompson writes from personal experience and considered study and in 100 pages provides an excellent introduction to attitudes to ruins from c.1790 to today. But… [Continue Reading]
Treasure of Rennes-le-Château, The
In his best selling book The Da Vinci Code, the author Dan Brown says that there are just two facts in the book: the existence of the Opus Dei and of the Priory of Sion. The Opus Dei is real enough, but the Priory of Sion has a less distinguished pedigree. Bill Putnam, who is… [Continue Reading]
Pakistan: Rohtas Fort
CWA reports on the mid 16th century, labyrinthine fort at Rohtas in Pakistan
Castelfiorentino, Renaissance Pottery from Tuscany
Digging a pottery kiln in the central Tuscan town of Castelfiorentino
Travel to Italy with the experts at Peter Sommer TravelSerre on the Somme, France: FirstWorld War excavations
The revelation of three First World War victims at Serre, resting place of Wilson Owen
Bam, Persia
Exclusive report on the effects of the devestating 26.12.2003 earthquake on the historical remains of Bam, Iran
Chitral, Pakistan
A royal fort in the Hindu Kush, and its seige in 1895: Bill Woodburn and Neil Faulkner report
Frobisher and the North-West passage
In 1576, the Elizabethan adventurer Martin Frobisher setout to discover the North-west passage to China, across the barren wastes of northern Canada. He failed to find the passage, and spent most of his time on a fool’s search for gold – but the remains of his settlement have recently been excavated by Robert McGhee, who has produced the reconstruction of the hut shown here.
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