Hard times

Most of us will never know what it’s like to live in a country pile – the kind with a mile-long carriage drive, acres of parkland dotted with deer, and gilded rooms stuffed with Chippendale furniture

Q Is it possible to have a death in a workhouse with no subsequent death certificate in 1885? I have the record from Ancestry of the death. Mary Ann Arnold born 1854, death May 1885 (maybe Mar 1885),

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

Head of campaigns for Asylum Matters, which co-leads the Lift the Ban coalition campaigning for the right to work for people seeking asylum As we were seeing violence in Epping, where children seeking

Henry Jeffreys on his eventful time as a council tenant

The institution that was the very quintessence of an Oxbridge college is in grave danger of disappearing