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Six decades ago, human spaceflight was a two-sided coin, as the United States and Soviet Russia competed for primacy in the Space Race during the Cold War. With global nuclear holocaust looming menaci

The Daily Sport ran an article about me once. They sent me a mock-up before it went to press, and I had two notes of crucial feedback. Firstly, the headline read: “Possessed by Demons… we all have a f

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

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