Watch: Why we're a lot more like the Romans than we might imagine
This week, editor Josh Spero talks about his visit to the British Museum’s Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum…
ByThis week, editor Josh Spero talks about his visit to the British Museum’s Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum…
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ByIn this week’s Monday Minute Josh Spero discusses how we can relate relics from the Pompeii Exhibition at the British…
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ByIn this week’s Monday Minute Josh Spero gives us the inside word on the 2013 Spear’s Book Awards and discusses…
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You really are nobody if you don’t own a private island these days. The latest person to have joined the…
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ByIn today’s Monday Minute (published on Tuesday because of the bank holiday), Josh Spero reflects on what a trip to…
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