A picture is worth a thousand words

Fabulous selection of Knitting and Crochet patterns every week in “The People’s Friend”! I love the recent Fair Isle slipcover made in Alpaca Wool. I wish I knew someone who could knit it for me. Such

I thought your readers would like to see a “Friend” annual which my daughter got from a charity shop. Could one of your readers help me to work out when it was published? The adverts and illustrations

This month’s 10 Pictures come from Richard Hargreaves. Born and still living in Telford, Richard inherited his dad’s interest in railways from an early age with family holidays providing the opportuni

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

Edward VII swept away the cobwebs of mid-Victorian style, Queen Mary had passion for all things small and the Queen Mother bought rather avant-garde art. In a forthcoming talk, Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal taste

So crude was television in the beginning that the BBC took time to be convinced by John Logie Baird’s invention. Born in Helensburgh on 13 August 1888, Baird enrolled at Glasgow’s Royal Technology Col