“leisure was very much built into the whole shopping experience”

Fred de Fossard

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early

Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has led to shuttered shipyards, ailing fishing fleets and impoverished coastal towns

From the isolated village where I live you can catch a minibus to the nearest supermarket, seven miles away. On the return journey it will drop you and your shopping off right outside your front door.

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Rufus Bird says rumours of a market decline are overstated