Midatlantic

I don’t suppose there will ever be another week in my life in which I go through an earthquake and a hurricane. I certainly hope not. Having...

I was lying on my bed on Tuesday afternoon just before 2pm when my house distinctly shuddered. As I sat up in alarm, the shudder became a ...

Jim Tribble, myself, and Glenn Jones Picture courtesy of Kevin Dunion   I’ve just come back home to the suburbs of Washington D...

My short biography of Princess Titaua of Tahiti – the eldest daughter of the Salmons – is being published by the Kilrenny and Anstruther...

One cold Sunday in December 1885, Henry Adams, historian, novelist and grandson and great-grandson of Presidents, found his wife dead on th...

Tomorrow is America’s Independence Day. Every year on this day I have the strange feeling of being neither here nor there. I grew up far fr...

The recent flare-up of violence in Northern Ireland  brought back memories of the province when I visited as a young TV researcher in the m...