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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, […]

Bringing more British Home Children to Canada than any other organisation, the Canadian Branch of Dr Barnardo’s organisation published the Ups and Downs magazine in Toronto […]

Two of my eight great-grandparents surnames were unusual – in fact, three of my great-grandparents surnames are registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. Bearing in […]

In Norway, today is National Independence Day, or Constitution Day, commemorating the introduction of constitutional government on 17 May 1814. The country had been transferred from […]