If i could turn back time

Paula knew what she wanted in her and husband Steve’s hunt for a bigger home: ‘I love a characterful, old house, and coming from a two-bedroom thatched cottage I had high expectations for our next mov

I’D seen an advertisement in my father’s newspaper for women to work on the canal boats. It said applicants should be of a robust constitution. I’m quite robust, so why not? I’d give it a go. “Look, D

Just before the Second World War in the 1930s, British farming was at the end of a long depression, partly caused by cheap grain imported from the North American prairies since the 1870s. Most farms w

Three women choose to spend their lives recognising the periods of history that mean the most to them

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The scariest part about moving into our house was that my first month’s payslip as a teacher went on my first mortgage payment! I was 24 and we’d bought a two-up, two-down house with a stairlift and n