When Zeal and Lytchett’s eyes met across the village square | Letters
Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s article on the sweet spot between quaint rural place names and nominative determinismHow could Adrian Chiles have overlooked Dorset, where quaint village-naming meets nominative determinism (From Bentley Pauncefoot to…
Greece returns priceless relics – and suggests UK should follow suit with Parthenon marbles
Greek PM hopes handover of Tsar Samuel to Bulgaria will persuade Britain that time has come for ‘truth, reason, justice and morality’In a ceremony replete with the sort of fanfare usually reserved for great events, Greece and Bulgaria have formally…
Should we refuse to give the Bayeux tapestry back to France? Of course not! So why are we keeping the Parthenon marbles? | Simon Jenkins
It is simply wrong for the British Museum to hoard what doesn’t belong to Britain. Let the squabbling end and the sculptures be returned to GreeceFor the Bayeux tapestry to return to France would be a scandal. It is British, probably made in Canterbury…
‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity
Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of LismoreTo the residents of the Scottish island of Lismore, population 190, history is never very far away. The tiny island near Oban in Argyll…