Punishment from on high

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This is the first of a series of articles; the intention being to provide an overview of useful family and local history records in existence, with advice on where to find them. The articles will incl

On the feast day of St Mary Magdalene in 1342, the heavens opened over Würzburg with unrelenting fury. What had begun as a whisper in the summer air was thundering like a wild beast. The skies, heavy

SELF-PROCLAIMED PROPHET ERVIL LEBARON WOULD STOP AT NOTHING TO RID THE WORLD OF HIS ENEMIES

Forty years ago, football hooliganism was at its peak, causing outrage, fear and fatalities. How did the sport recover from its darkest days, and what happened to the men who belonged to the “firms”? Rosa Silverman reports