Workers’ Memorial Day – “Remember the dead, fight for the living.”
There was a terrible accident at the ropery on Wivenhoe High Street on 19th February 1855, when a boiler exploded. It killed three lads – Henry Browne (ag...
Category: History
A witchfinder, an admiral, P. G. Wodehouse, the Boleyns and me
Strange things start to happen if you can trace your family back far enough, and if you can find a thread which is, let’s be honest… posh. In trying...
Video: The Secret of the Edwardian Brooch
This might look like a fairly ordinary photograph brooch, but it has a secret…. Audio transcript (PDF – 40KB)
Interview with Janice Preston, historical romance author
The first book by Janice Preston, historical romance novelist, was published this summer. Mary and the Marquis tells the tale of a widow, who finds an injured m...
Lawshall: of private baptisms and misgotten infants
Hogarth’s depiction of Tristram Shandy’s home baptism. The other week, I started to transcribe the parish registers for Lawshall in Suffolk, startin...