Architecture

The ‘Nazi who said sorry’ was a master of constructing his own narrative.

Roger Hudson describes how the ‘stiffest bridge in the world’ took shape following a railway disaster in 1897.

The church was consecrated on December 28th, 1065.

Behind the beautiful work of the ‘Father of Glasgow’ lay a deep and lasting love.

Roger Hudson details the rebuilding of the world’s first theme park in south London in 1853.

The monumental city of Persepolis was the pride of the Persian empire until its destruction by fire. Richard Stoneman revisits its builders, Darius and Xerxes, and their role in its construction.

Near London Bridge, writes W.A. Speck, the Doric column to commemorate the Great Fire of 1666 was designed by Wren and made of Portland Stone.

The remains of the Palace were almost completely destroyed by the fire of 1834 and, writes L.W. Cowie, the Houses of Parliament were rebuilt by Sir Charles Barry.

Briefly a royal palace, writes L.W. Cowie, Bridewell became a hospital, an apprentices’ school and a reformatory for vagrants and prostitutes.

L.W. Cowie takes the reader on a visit to a city monastery, for three hundred years associated with the Dominicans and, after the Reformation, with the theatre.