Into the Forbidden Zone: Varosha, ghost city of Cyprus
Varosha from Palm Beach In 1974, the glamorous resort town of Varosha in Cyprus was abandoned by its 35,000 mainly Greek Cypriot residents after the Turkish army invaded the northern part of the...
View ArticleGhosts in the city: the ruined churches of Famagusta
Remains of the Armenian church, Famagusta Famagusta (Gazimagusa) is a medieval walled city in north Cyprus that has changed hands many times in its long history: once a Crusader stronghold; then a...
View ArticleRuin gazing: dead cities and the imagination of disaster
A future visitor beholds the ruins of Victorian London in ‘London: A Pilgrimage’, 1874 I’m currently embarking on a new research project that has grown out of recent work on the legacy of Chernobyl and...
View ArticleAuthentic ruins
Collapsing shed on a farm in the Peak District, Staffordshire In the early 1780s, the English artist, author and Anglian priest William Gilpin (1720-1804) visited the ruined Tintern Abbey on the banks...
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