Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College,…
Maintaining conservation standards in our towns and villages is essential work but light years away from the stench of cordite in Beirut…
Viva La Revolucion! is a wonderfully engaging title featuring recipes from Mexico’s best chefs. Cook-books are certainly all the rage at Christmas, but…
Tony Wilmott started with the re-excavation of one amphitheatre, that of Chester. He promptly went on to a re-examination of amphitheatres, sorts…
John Preston’s The Dig, a story about the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon site of Sutton Hoo, has now been published in paperback. It…
With the decline of grammar schools in Britain, Classics seemed to be heading for a fall. Recently however, both in the UK…
Remembering Awatovi describes life in a field camp in Hopi country between 1935 and 1939, during a Harvard University expedition to northern…
Why did the western half of the Roman Empire fall? Did it fall at all – or was it peacefully transformed into…
This is a dramatic, broad-brush treatment of ten millennia of European prehistory, written on the principle that ‘geography is about chaps, history…
A snapshot of the Australopithecus afarensis, otherwise known as 'Lucy'.…
It is the magazine's fifth anniversary, so, in celebration, we look back at some of our most memorable reports from across the…
Paul Bahn reflects on the potency of Nevadan rock art…