Inigo Thomas

In​ 1978, Jacqueline Onassis thought it a good idea for her teenage son John to spend some months away from New York with the Youth Conservation Corps of the Yellowstone National Park. But John didn’t fit in, so she rang John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and owner of a twenty-thousand-acre Wyoming ranch. Barlow had been in San Francisco for the Summer of Love; he knew...

Pina​ was shot dead on a street in Rome in the spring of 1944 on what would have been her wedding day. She was pregnant. Her fiancé, Francesco, arrested moments earlier after a German raid on apartment buildings east of the central railway station, was ordered into the back of a truck. Men were frequently rounded up during the German occupation of Rome, to be requisitioned as labour...

The central staircase​ at Camden Town Hall is made of white marble from Carrara and is more lustrous than any marble staircase you’re likely to see in Rome. The building was designed for the Borough of St Pancras by Albert Thomas, a disciple of Lutyens, and opened in 1937 as St Pancras Town Hall. Twenty-eight years later, the borough was one of three – along with Holborn and...