If, like me, you remember from your younger years the mesmerising Newton’s Cradle; a foot-long plastic matchstick concealing a lighter;...

As my interest in and knowledge of film and architecture have grown, I’ve become more and more absorbed by how backlot sets and actual...

If you know where and how to look in London today, there isn’t much that separates the present from the past. Stand in Piccadilly, just...

Thirty years ago today, a shiny new British Rail Class 373 electric train left Waterloo station in London. Thirty years ago today, a...

Who created this unsigned painting of the Communion of the Apostles, which dates from the late 15th century and was made for the ducal...

The words ‘face’ and ‘façade’ are connected etymologically but also practically. Just as the former tells us something about a person’s...

A copy of the last-ever Evening Standard on a pub table in Holborn a few hours ago. Next week a new, Thursday-only publication will...