Lilian lenton the elusive pimpernel

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

Beryl Nevell thought her service during the Second World War had been a case of ‘doing her duty’. Then someone special stepped in and showed her what she was truly owed…

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To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Woman, Queen and Legend ...

Last time (FT460:28-35), we explored something of the historical background behind the idea of spontaneous human combustion and how the orthodoxy of forensics and fire experts has largely damned the p