Historic cities

The importance of place to James Baldwin

Ruth Jones and James Corden are giddy with excitement when they arrive to talk with Big Issue. We are in St Katharine Docks, London, where they’re midway through the edit for the 90-minute Gavin & Sta

Q I would be grateful if you could advise me on the following please. Persons of interest: • William Page 1816-; • spouse Emma Dunsby abt. 1823-1906; • & son Thomas John Page abt. 1843/4-1893. Investi

hen giving talks on UFOs I’m sometimes asked which single event offers the best evidence for intelligent alien life. Until the recent preprint report from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory conclud

Q My grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Holman, was born in 1869/70. The earliest record I have for him is as a ‘visitor’ in the household of Walter Fitch, in Kelvedon, Essex, in the 1911 census. He is singl

In 1798, Britain’s most celebrated admiral pursued the French across the Mediterranean, attempting to thwart General Bonaparte’s mission to Egypt. The pursuit culminated in what was arguably the most strategically important naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars