Blogs in November 2020

Barcelona 29th November 2020

Robert Hughes has been visiting Barcelona since the 1960s and he has written an epic tribute to a city he loves. He tells the story of the growth of this Mediterranean metropolis from its origins as a Roman colonial...

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Rome 1st January 1970

In his early 20s Hughes first came to Rome in the late 50s. He takes us back from that point, two thousand years into the heyday of the Roma at the heart of the Roman Empire. Moving through from...

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The Fatal Shore 1st January 1970

An incredible look at the history of this erstwhile penal colonly, well written and rivetting

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