Hughenden Revisited

28th May 1898; Queen Victoria attends William Gladstone’s State funeral in Westminster Abbey,

Cloud Cities

If you want people to know you have a cold, ostentatiously blow your nose; but if you are feeling pretentious, something I sometimes feel, it’s not so easy to signal.

Twelve Responses to Tragedy

If the Yalta conference features at all in our collective consciousness it is as the photograph of the Allied leaders taken by Robert Hopkins, son of Harry Hopkins.

You Know Who

As a child I don’t think I counted my blessings; I did curse curse my afflictions, like wet Sunday afternoons at prep school.

Spain and the Hispanic World

How to spend it? Philanthropists in the past have spent fortunes building collections that are internationally acclaimed for their quality today.

3 D Donatello

You may have been to the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam.