“come and assist your loving mother. i am in prison for debt” “dear mother, so am i”

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early ...

Henry Jeffreys on his eventful time as a council tenant

Four more great escapes you can follow on foot across the country.

200 years of Dickens on stage and screen

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

Samuel Pepys is England’s most celebrated diarist. Between 1 January 1660 and 31 May 1669, he recorded his day-to-day life in fascinating and illuminating detail. He wrote about his relationship with