Architecture
A mid-Victorian competition to design new Government Offices in Whitehall fell victim to a battle between the competing styles of Gothic and Classical. The result proved unworthy of a nation then at its imperial zenith, as Bernard Porter explains. |
Ann Natanson reports on a new scheme to restore the Roman Colosseum to its former gory glory. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 10, 2011
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A mid-Victorian competition to design new Government Offices in Whitehall fell victim to a battle between the competing styles of Gothic and Classical. The result proved unworthy of a nation then at its imperial zenith, as Bernard Porter explains. |
Richard Bosworth looks at the Vittoriano, the Italian capital’s century-old monument to Victor Emmanuel II and Italian unification and still the focus of competing claims over the country’s history and national identity. |
As a major new exhibition on the Aesthetic Movement opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Richard Cavendish explores Bedford Park, the garden suburb inspired by the movement’s ideals. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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A project to restore one of the Polish city’s 20th-century monuments has turned into a cultural battleground, writes Roger Moorhouse. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 8
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Leo Hollis visits the History Today archive to find an appreciation of Christopher Wren, written by a kindred spirit at a time when both sides of Wren’s genius – the scientist and the artist – were rarely explored. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 3
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Harold F. Hutchison introduces the son of royalist gentry, an Oxford graduate, a Professor of Astronomy, a mathematician, and the most distinguished architect that Britain has produced. Leo Hollis added a historiographical postscript in 2010. Published in Volume: 23 Issue: 4, 1973
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Anthony Aveni explains how the people planning great monuments and cities, many millennia and thousands of miles apart, so often sought the same inspiration – alignments with the heavens. |
The houses built by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, are a reflection of his career under Henry VIII, says Maurice Howard, and the King's manipulation of those who served him. Published in History Today, 2008
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Geoffrey Tyack remembers the renowned architectural historian who died on December 27th, 2007.
Published in History Today, Volume: 58 Issue: 4
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Richard Barber describes the discoveries he made last summer when Channel Four’s Time Team uncovered Edward III’s huge circular building at the heart of Windsor Castle. |
Romans have reacted passionately to the new presentation of one of the Eternal City’s key historic monuments, Charlotte Crow explains.
Published in History Today, Volume: 56 Issue: 6
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Westminster Abbey, England’s necropolis for royalty and other notables, reveals more secrets. Published in History Today, Volume: 56 Issue: 2
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Kevin Kennedy highlights a controversial project to rebuild a one-time Prussian ‘national monument’. Published in History Today, Volume: 55 Issue: 5
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Adrian Mourby welcomes a new wave of opera houses around the world, and compares this with the previous surge in the late 19th century. Published in History Today, Volume: 54 Issue: 12
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