Gifts, trees & feasting

200 years of Dickens on stage and screen

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

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FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

One of the four major festivals on the Gaelic calendar (along with Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane), Lughnasadh is an ancient celebration of the first harvest, traditionally taking place at the end of Jul

REVEREND JERRY GRANDE paused as he entered St Symeon’s Church. He gazed at the light streaming through the largest of the stained-glass windows, spilling in a wide stripe of colour across the altar, p