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Most family historians will find their ancestors living and/or working in London at one point in time or another. This week, we are going to focus […]

Thomas John Elford Oats was the second eldest son of Thomas and Ellen Symons (nee Elford) Oats. Passing on the mother’s maiden name as a middle […]

Heading to this year’s Winter Olympics at the Russian coastal resort of Sochi, the expectations are running as high as they’ve ever been for the Australian […]

Ice Hockey is a fast paced team sport placed on ice, requiring good levels of skill, speed, agility and endurance. Ice hockey made its first appearance […]

Ski jumping was developed in the late nineteenth century in Norway with the aim of the discipline being to jump as far as possible and then […]

Curling is a team sport which evolved in Scotland in the sixteenth century and is played on a rectangular sheet of ice, specially prepared for the […]

Speed skating is a skating discipline which originated in the thirteenth century in Holland, where people practiced skating for crossing the frozen water. However, it was […]

We will begin this week’s guide – in the run up to the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi – with the Luge. The […]

Some years ago, when researching Richard Sillifant – a rare Sillifant who was not an ‘ag lab’ – I purchased The Victorian Policeman by Simon Dell […]