History’s greatest conundrums and mysteries solved

John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...

The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London EC2

Cultural Crusader

I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness