Volume 48 Issue 11 November 1998

Seeking the Slant

Marina Warner traces the origins of a lifetime’s curiosity in the power of stories.

Stately Treasures at the Tate

Richard Cavendish highlights a new exhibition at the Tate which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Historic Houses Association.

Kosovo's Conflict

The troubled history of the region, and the deep-rooted antagonisms between the different ethnic groups laying claim to it.

Forty Years of the Victorian Society

Rebecca Daniels celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Victorian Society, which set out in 1958 to save nineteenth-century architectural gems from destruction.