Harry Mount

I spotted a lissom blonde in green T-shirt and tie-dye trousers. We fell in step as we approached the gift shop

Roger Lewis answers what it is about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor that still hooks us in

Professor Mary Beard told me: ‘I must confess that I probably think about the Roman Empire about fifty times a day’

They swore like us. They were obsessed with sex, like us. And they wrote their rudest thoughts on walls — in a much more obscene way than we do

Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century