Bacchus with a wine cup, Naples Museum 1987 - our first trip to Pompeii. We were staying, with our three daughters in Santa Maria di Cas...

Given that my last two History Girls posts have concerned the very bloody assassinations of Roman emperors, I thought that this month I migh...

I t hangs in a glass case in dimmed lighting: a small phallus carved in white with wings made from bronze. The label informs m...

A frame of the historic footage of Market Street in 1906 by Caroline Lawrence One thing that fascinates us about the tragedy of Pompei...

It sounds horrible to ‘keep history fresh’, as if it were a loaf of stale bread. To me it's particularly repulsive since learning t...