Across our cities and towns, night’s natural darkness is giving way to the glare and dazzle of LED lighting – but to embrace it wholeheartedly is to risk losing more than ominous shadows.
From pagan rituals to paper hats, the tradition of the festive season has always evolved with the times.
Statues have become the object of frenzied debate in recent months. They must persist, at least, as a memorial to themselves – to stand above fleeting passions in reach of the eternal.
‘Home is homely, though it be poore in sight,’ wrote J.Heywood in 1546. Heywood is an obscure author but many people today will agree with him, having
Amid the tumult of the 1970s, it appeared the traditional country house had gone into irreversible decline – but it was too early to write it off.
The apostle for a new way of life, Ebenezer Howard dreamt of a new world of ‘garden cities’.
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