How life returned to the streets of pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii The immersive exhibition Immerse LDN, Excel, London, until March 15 Vesuvius was always erupting in nineteenth-century London, to the delight of hundreds of thousands of eager

Charles Dickens Pictures from Italy 384pp. Oxford University Press. £176 (US $230). In November 1843, burnt out and living beyond his means, Charles Dickens resolved on a year-long sabbatical in Europ

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

Los Angeles offers Hollywood glamour and year-round sunshine — but it’s the strange history and hidden quirks that keep Kevin EG Perry hooked

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Teresa Levonian Cole climbs aboard the latest iteration of the Orient Express for a sybaritic journey to the ‘underground city’ of Matera