Reverend Edward Chad Varah was born on this day in 1911 in the town of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. His parents, William Edward Varah and Mary Atkinson, married […]
….and finally, Z is for zigarius – a nineteenth century term for a gypsy. On historical documentation, you will rarely find reference to families being gypsies, […]
…. Generation Y. Ah ha…. you thought it would be Y-DNA didn’t you?! Globally, generation Y (gen Y) refers broadly to individuals born between 1975 and […]
…. Victorian Crime and Punishment. Sensational murder stories in the Victorian era sold newspapers and crime fiction in a way that had never been seen before […]
OK, so I have become slightly obsessed with stupid names today, possibly to the detriment of the ‘to do’ list but it has certainly brought laughter […]
…. Unbelievable. Russell Ash comments in Potty, Fartwell and Knob, that ‘some are born with strange surnames, some are blessed, or cursed, with unusual first or […]