Battle of eylau

DAVE ANNAL is a genealogist, author and lecturer ALAN CROSBY is the editor of The Local Historian and our columnist (see page 13) ANTONY MARR is a fellow, and previous chair, of AGRA and a former depu

While the word dinosaur stems from the Greek for ‘terrible lizard’, dinosaurs aren’t lizards. This distinction is based on anatomical features, notably the legs. A lizard’s legs stick out at right ang

For nine days the heroic 1st Airborne fought desperately, waiting vainly for relief that never came

THE MOST DOMINANT FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS ALSO ITS MOST MYSTERIOUS AND MOST UNANTICIPATED

When I think about challenging family history problems – those knotty “brick walls” that have defied our attempts to solve them for months or perhaps years – I think about two basic divisions of genea

Alice Diamond’s shoplifting gang descended on London’s West End stores “like a plague of locusts” – and made themselves a fortune While the Peaky Blinders, Brigton Billy Boys and Charles Sabini’s mob