I’m sitting here on a lazy afternoon re-watching the 1974 classic disaster movie The Towering Inferno for the umpteenth time. A star studded cast, including Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, and Fred Astaire, struggle to escape from the mother of all skyscraper fires. But how many towering infernos have there been in reality? As…
The year 1755 saw the city of Lisbon destroyed by a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and widespread fires as Tony McMahon discovers
I’ve spent a lot of time in Paris this year and made two visits to Notre Dame in February and March. It made me sick to my stomach to see the cathedral in flames yesterday. But almost immediately, having immersed myself in the history of Notre Dame, I recognised an opportunity that could arise from…