Saving Saranda
Strictly speaking Saranda cannot be saved. When I first came here in September 1993, a year after Albania became a democracy, it was a blissful Ionian seaport. Many of its citizens had left for Greece, so it felt empty, yet…
architectural survey
Francis Frith in Egypt
Julia Skinner explores the life and work of the pioneering photographer
who documented the great monuments of ancient Egypt.
The Book of the Skelligs
Review by Finbar McCormick Skellig Michael, a rocky outcrop off the south-west coast of Ireland, boasts the best-surviving early medieval monastery in Ireland, if not western Europe. Ironically, despite the richness of Ireland’s early medieval documentary sources, mentions of the…
Survey identifies remains of Greasley Castle in Nottinghamshire
The survey work showed that the complex was a ‘courtyard castle’ with corner turrets and a great hall...
Oldest surviving synagogue in Wales recorded
This work was deemed particularly important, as the building had been identified as one of the 16 most important synagogues at risk in Europe.