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Q Can you tell me when this photo was taken? I believe it may be of my great great grandfather, William Andrew Stone (born 1855); great great grandmother, Eliza Gray (born 1860); and two of their five

I have an idea that the child in this photograph is my grandmother. Whilst genealogists and other organisations use ears as an aid to identification, here I am sticking my neck out by relying on eyebr

Q I’m trying to work out whose wedding this is. The lady fourth from the left on the back row is Mary Wright, my great grandmother, who died in 1933. The bridesmaid in front, fourth from right, is her

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?

The fairy photographs taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in Cottingley, near Bradford, in 1917 and promoted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – a firm believer in fairies – are among the most

Chartarumludentist Anthony Wilkins [FT458:63] may wish to visit China. While living there in 2005 I found so many discarded playing cards on the ground that I was able to assemble a unique deck of 52