Shop-keeper, dealer in clothes, wet-nurse and mother

Q My ancestor, Charles Hayes, was born on 6 October 1700 in Harrow on the Hill to Charles Hayes and Ann Ewster. He attended University College Cambridge and, described as “one of the Gentlemen of the

Nine-year-old future star of the silent screen Charlie Chaplin, his mother Hannah, and older half-brother Sydney entered the Lambeth workhouse, south London, in July 1898. The boys were soon transferr

I LIFT my head to the weak sun and give thanks for having survived another winter. It’s good to see the lane is passable, even if there are ruts and puddles. However, I can still see the bones of icy,

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Waresley is a tiny picture-postcard Cambridgeshire village of about 200 inhabitants where you might think nothing exciting ever happens. And mostly, it doesn’t. But in 1965 it was the scene of one of

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