Nigeness

Apart from shared membership of the human race, my father had but one thing in common with Marcel Proust – a fascination with that endless...

'A modern blight sees history through a prism (or fog) that distorts much of the past, not because of often obvious absurdities, but bec...

The other day I visited, for the first time, Old St Pancras' Church and its graveyard, hard by the great Victorian railway terminus na...

'If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving a tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all....

Today I dropped in on the National Gallery to have a look at Drawn in Colour, a lovely exhibition of the twenty-odd Degas pastel drawings ...

So, it's official – the worst place in the UK to be a woman is, er, Islington. That was one of the findings of a big survey commissioned...

Born on this day in 1844 was the poet Robert Bridges, whose greatest contribution to English literature was his collecting and eventual publ...