Thomas paine 1737–1809

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

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

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

Were the seeds of Civil War already written into the American Constitution?