Cultural Crusader

Cultural Crusader

Green and pleasant land: 91% say that the ...

The historian, author and former director of planning and development at English Heritage tells Anne Cuthbertson about his life and work in the capital

fter its closure and abandonment in 1969, St Andrew’s Chapel, a once handsome 15th-century gatehouse abbey in Boxley, Kent, stood for 50 years in a state of decay, at ever-increasing risk of ruin. Tod

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi