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Dear Ancestors of yesteryear, I am so delighted that you were empowered to fill out the 1911 census forms yourselves, as many of you – mostly […]

Much of my time is spent with my head in the past, tracing family trees backwards in history, or forwards to locate beneficiaries in wills or […]

Why is it so difficult to accept something for nothing these days? I bought a scratch card on Saturday for £2 and won £10. That’s fine. […]

Ann Codling was my gggg-grandmother but her name was not recorded on my maternal grandfather’s family tree. The furthest back he had traced was Margaret Robson, […]

The ghosts of thousands of long-forgotten villages haunt Britain, communities suddenly deserted and left to ruin. Back in 2010, a campaign was launched to shed light on […]

In the UK, we have many game shows where contestants use their knowledge – or lack thereof – to try to win money. I can think […]

In the United Kingdom today, local and European elections are taking place. I have never developed any great interest in politics on any level but today […]

I sure started early today – goodness I hate it when the alarm says 5 something! Pottering across Salisbury Plains in fog, I arrived to find […]

This is St Dunstan’s Day, celebrated by some of the churches and other institutions which bear his name. Born in Somerset in the early tenth century, […]