The 1911 census, unlike previous censuses, asked the public: “If any person included in this Schedule is ‘Totally Deaf’ or ‘Deaf and Dumb’”. Previous censuses had grouped health information together a

Trying to keep my son alive, my own health was suffering. Then we found a lucky Penny and everything changed.

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

Elspeth wanted to get back to her old self – but was she brave enough?

NOTHING said “home” like the kitchen of Nant-y-Bri Farm at breakfast time. Delicious frying pan smells hung heavy in the air and the scrape of cutlery on willow pattern plates indicated the family had