The Oldie Magazine
Guests from hell
When Tanya Gold moved to Cornwall, she invited lots of friends to stay – she won’t be asking them back for Christmas
4 min |
January 2021
The Oldie Magazine
Holy Hitch
Christopher Hitchens, the most famous atheist in the world, was a wonderful, generous godfather to Alice Cockerell
4 min |
January 2021
The Oldie Magazine
A very amateur performance
Nick Newman was thrilled to sign Burt Reynolds for his film. If only Burt had remembered his lines and hadn’t spent so much on wigs
6 min |
January 2021
The Oldie Magazine
I'm Dreaming Of A Dry Christmas
After decades in Drunkland, Mary Killen suddenly lost the taste for drink. She now sees the festive season in a whole new – clear – light
4 min |
January 2021
Ancient Egypt
Pharaoh, Osiris and the Mummy
The Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence in southern France, is renown for its collection of paintings from masters such as Cézanne, Ingres and Van Gogh, and is named after the French painter François-Marius Granet, one of the museum’s major benefactors.
1 min |
November / December 2020
Ancient Egypt
GEBEL EL-SILSILA THROUGHOUT THE AGES: PART 6 – RAMESSIDE QUARRYING
Maria Nilsson and John Ward revisit the Ramesside era at Gebel el-Silsila to explore the quarries, the Temple of Sobek and a unique blueprint of ancient quarrying.
4 min |
November / December 2020
Ancient Egypt
Highlights of the Manchester Museum 25: A Wooden Mallet
Campbell Price describes a tool once used by an ancient Egyptian stone-mason, now in Manchester Museum’s collection.
2 min |
November / December 2020
Ancient Egypt
Per Mesut: For Younger Readers
Gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrr
4 min |
November / December 2020
Ancient Egypt
The Last Wealthy City Of The Delta
Ayman Wahby and Said Eltalhawy describe their recent excavations at Tell Tebilla, one of the most important cities in the Delta during the first millennium BC.
7 min |
November / December 2020
Ancient Egypt
Eight Masterpieces Of Ancient Egyptian Jewellery
Nigel Fletcher-Jones showcases some of the most stunning pieces created by ancient Egypt’s master craftsmen.
9 min |
November / December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Travels with my daughter
When pop star Florence Welch was asked to an Irish literary festival, she took her father Nick Welch along – and he loved it
5 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Tolstoy's last stop
At 82, the great writer left his wife. He wanted to get hundreds of miles away but only made it to a nearby station.
5 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
My birthday odyssey
As he turned 70, Nigel Summerley followed in Odysseus’s footsteps from Italy to Ithaca
5 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Transport of delight
Fifty years after The Railway Children film, Kate Garner makes a pilgrimage to the Yorkshire steam railway where it was made
5 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Magic mushrooms
The joys of mushroom-hunting, the earthiest, most primordial form of foraging, are lyrically evoked in Colin Thubron’s Among the Russians (1983).
3 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Master of Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Eighty years after he died, aged only 32, Pont still nails the British character.
4 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Guilty men
Thirty years ago, Margaret Thatcher was toppled by three Conservative big beasts. Her old friend Norman Tebbit names them
3 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
English queen of a French vineyard
Béatrice Viennet reigned over Sotheby’s and the family vines
3 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Dear Perry, my gallant knight
Lucinda Lambton salutes her husband, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, the Sunday Telegraph editor who died in October aged 96
3 min |
December 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Harvard's King of Comedy
Tom Lehrer went from satire genius to Ivy League maths professor. Now, at 92, the great man is giving away his archive.
4 min |
December 2020
France
VEULES-LES-ROSES
Between the white cliffs of the Côte d’Albâtre and the bucolic landscapes of the Pays de Caux, discover a village that combines coast and country,
4 min |
December 2020
France
Taking the BISCUIT
France is known for its exquisite pâtisserie and extravagant gâteaux but the not-so-humble biscuit deserves recognition too
5 min |
December 2020
France
PICTURE PERFECT PISTE
After a decade away from the slopes Janet Brice finds her ski legs in val d'arly, a hidden gem in the shadow of Mount Blanc
8 min |
December 2020
France
Let there BE LIGHT
Lyon’s annual Fête des Lumières brightens up the darkest of December nights in spectacular fashion, finds David Atkinson on a winter visit to the Rhône capital
4 min |
December 2020
France
Shop ‘til YOU DROP
In the first of our new Insight guides, Helen Parkinson delights in the French shopping experience
4 min |
December 2020
France
Floating YOUR BOAT
Spending a day on the River Seine in Paris, Heidi Fuller-love samples some of the city’s top entertainment that can be enjoyed afloat
6 min |
December 2020
France
Paindemic In Paris
For American actor and writer Alexander Burnett, a shortage of bread at his local boulangerie was one of the biggest challenges of lockdown in his adopted home city
5 min |
December 2020
Sussex Life
TAKE YOUR TIME
Dean Edwards’ new cookbook features delectable recipes that you can slow cook or stick in the oven. Here’s a selection of the best
7 min |
November 2020
Dorset Magazine
Painting the Seasons
Nicholas Hely Hutchinson reveals how the changing moods of the Dorset coast and countryside inspire his paintings
4 min |
November 2020
Dorset Magazine
THE HEAT IS ON
Weymouth 51 are blazing a trail through the chilli world with their handcrafted fermented sauces that offer layers of complex flavours from mild and fruity to super-hot tongue tinglers
8 min |