Antipodes

Over the last few years, several members of my Australian family have taken advantage of the addresses of places indicated in my family-hist...

A century separates these two photos taken at exactly the same spot in a northern neighborhood of London. The older lady was Mart...

When I was a science student at Sydney University in the '50s, the future celebrated author Robert Hughes [1938-2012] was studying arch...

They're colorful creatures. Kept in a domestic cage, fed periodically on spiritual tidbits (cereal wafers and cheap wine, with holy wate...

Regular readers of my Antipodes blog will have noticed that I often go out of my way to give a friendly helping hand to needy causes that a...

Watching this amateur video of Richard Dawkins standing up in a London crowd and speaking out against the pope, I was immediately reminded ...

Yesterday, I wrote about my great-grandfather William Skyvington , who must have spent a particularly nasty period of six months in a notori...

I went to live and work in the UK in December 1962... at a time when an obscure musical group called the Beatles was starting to become pop...

This is the most recent and probably biggest ever work, on a post office wall in central London, of the secretive British graffiti artist Ba...

Readers who haven't had the privilege of being jolted around in the London underground train system will need to know that the gap in qu...

In London a few weeks ago, I was greatly impressed by the splendid transformation of the old St Pancras station, which will soon replace Wa...

We always referred to our paternal grandfather, Ernest Skyvington [1891-1985] , as Pop . That was a nice name for a grandfather back in the ...