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YOU won’t make it ring by looking at it every two minutes, you know.” My sister Joy has a habit of stating the obvious. I put my phone down and start drumming my fingers on the kitchen table; somethin

There’s an App for everything these days but a fun new digital tool has worked out the poshest names in the UK. And it’s not good news if your name is – like my middle name – Maureen. Or indeed if you

What do women want in a man? It’s often assumed that physical strength would be high on the list. After all, bulging muscles indicate health, strength and the ability to protect from harm. Yet a new s

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When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset REBECCA PROBERT is professor of law at the University of Exeter STEVE THOMAS is a genealogist with over 20 years’ experience PHIL TOMASELLI is a mi