Genoa is now my home-away-from-home, my number one few-days-free hop-on-a-last-minute-Ryanair favourite. read more

When Marcella Pattyn died in 2013, many marked it as the end of the beguines. I’m not so certain. read more

As New Yorkers head to the polls today it might be worthwhile perusing the archives for reports of elections previous. read more

A founding father’s Catholic daughter is reunited with her parents nearly 185 years later. read more

The corner apartment of this historic palazzo has been restored to domestic dignity. read more

An abandoned idiosyncratic attempt at a modern cathedral in Liberia’s capital. read more

Some West Country funerary polyhedra. read more

Christian Frederik Hansen’s monument to civic order. read more

The environmentalist, democrat, monarchist, professor, government minister, and landscape architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles. read more

A front-page view of America’s oldest collegiate athletic competition. read more

Her Grace the Duchess of Somerset presented the cup to the inaugural winners, Emeriti C.C. read more

The Académie française, probably the coolest secular institution in the world. read more

Everyone knows the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. But there were a few proposals symbols that didn’t make the cut. read more

A derelict service building has been transformed into an elegant structure the fits effortlessly into its surroundings. read more

The date of Easter, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the Lebanese space programme. read more

The photographer Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn has died. read more

“Universally liked and respected,” Monsignor Spraggon was to prove “a tower of strength” during the Argentine occupation. read more

Direct representation is the delicate thread that links the people with their government, Tony Benn argued. read more

The old whaling village of Sag Harbor has the perfect little small-town American movie theatre. read more

The confident freehand of interwar American architecture reaches its greatest exuberance in California. read more

A brief overview of most-but-not-all the films I managed to see on the big screen in the year just gone. read more

Edgar Allan Poe, the Gothic tradition, and the friendly ghosts of Fordham. read more

This gem of the American Georgian building arts is an almost miraculous survival. read more

“I constantly used to dream about it,” the Professor said. “It was a strong longing.” read more

George Plimpton described him as “a genius” but his most famous work of criticism got him put on trial.
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It haunts the mind of novelist Thomas Peermohamed Lambert. read more

Every few years this Bronx garden gets ‘rediscovered’ by outsiders. read more

Summer jobs, the CIA, and the everyday conservatism of old-school New England. read more

The secretive sect that helped topple Assad. read more

A Solemn Mass will be celebrated on the feast at Warwick Street Church. read more

The Argentine world that formed the late Pope Francis. read more

Rifling through Robert A. Caro’s archives, granny killing, Camille Paglia, London’s decline, and Richard Nixon. read more

What the Chilean presidential election tells us about Germans in South America. read more

Daughter to and translator of the great Hungarian writer. read more

It is important to claim territory. read more

The grandest indoor tennis court America has ever seen. read more

Please come to the launch of our new journal on Tuesday 18 February 2025. read more

Patriarchs, pantheons, and High Christmas cheer. read more

MI5 have changed swapped their crown round. read more

Some excellent news for the Knickerbocker Greys. read more

It is always worth consulting the sages for their counsels. In this case, Maurice Druon. read more

Luttwak, Niall Gooch on railways, Seb Milbank on Smithfields, and more. read more

A report on England’s parish churches, and the return of college grace. read more

Is die Amsterdamse stadsargitektuur die mees hemels in die wêreld? read more

A wonderful glimpse of the old days in the memoirs of the late Lord Waddington. read more

The dolce vita glory days of Beirut Airport, the fall of the Evening Standard, and labour-friendly conservatism. read more

In Jerusalem I interviewed Fr Piotr Zelazko of the St James Vicariate. read more

Singapore’s state, Edinburgh’s old parliament, and Stanford’s war on its student life. read more

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s monument of street furniture. read more

Jan Morris, the Hadhramaut, and Tenzing Norgay’s claret guzzling. read more

Robert Anning-Bell’s mosaic of Saint Patrick in Central Lobby, the Palace of Westminster. read more

Our latest revue of interesting things elsewhere. read more

Even dogs benefited from a high-trust society, as this story shared by Roger Knight shows. read more

The former residence of Christianna Brand. read more

Celebrating B Company’s birthday in style at the Seventh Regiment Mess in May 1940. read more

Lectures and videos promoting traditional architecture. read more

Phillips Brooks het ’n klein geskenk aan die wêreld gegee. lees meer

What to do with a former church building. read more

The Scots tongue, ancient forests, and golden California. read more

Two tales of building Bloomsbury. read more

On: Welsh, Algeria, beer, coins, monastic retreats, Fife churches, and Irish dogs. read more

The threefold division of the world according to the old Scots sages. read more

“Don’t be blind to the market,” de Gaulle warned, but “you should not imagine that it will solve every problem on its own.” read more

An upcoming renovation will change the seating plan in Quebec’s parliament chamber. read more

While the dome survived, St Paul’s Cathedral did suffer bomb damage during the war. read more

As revealed by the bibliophile ‘Incunabula’ on Twitter. read more

“The location is a most delightfully secluded spot, eminently suited to the musings and mastery of mind…” read more

The ninetieth anniversary of the consecration of the high altar of this Dominican church. read more

The Golden State’s lost variety of “Cal-Gaullism”. read more

The Tuesday evening devotions of the Guild of Our Lady of Warwick Street. read more

Punch on how to treat a foreign propagandist. read more

Film review of this eerie mystery set in 1830s West Point. read more

Civil uniform of the Mexican republic at the coronation of Nicholas II. read more

A modern re-working of a 15th-century design. read more

A Missa Cantata will be sung this Saturday. read more

Bone fragment of Scotland’s saintly queen will be venerated at ancient university. read more

The visual decline of this once-great Greenwich Village weekly. read more

The French Republic’s gift to a New York regiment. read more

This Manhattan congregation dates back to 1660. read more

On the Spanish word for ‘Galilean’. read more

A century-old classic updated for today. read more

John Ritzema wonders if there are any Austrian lessons from the demise of the sovereign. read more

The King has released his new emblem. read more

A Missa Cantata will be sung this Saturday. read more