A way of life

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

Ancient rural skills in a modern world

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DIARY By Jonathan Wright and Danny Bird HISTORY COOKBOOK Tomato soup cake CITIES Marrakech, Morocco Few places are more synonymous with Jane Austen than Bath – though it’s fair to say that she had mix

Our annual summer camp for many of my East Kilbride Scouts in 1977 was a choice between an expensive long distance coach trip to Switzerland or a cheaper and fun district camp at Glentrool, just an ho

Dear Simon, The history of Pitman shorthand told by Angeline Wilcox in the July edition of Best of British (Write on Time) evoked so many memories. I was amazed to learn that Isaac Pitman actually cre