‘a naming pattern solved my mystery’

RESEARCHERS at Findmypast have embarked on a project to recognise and highlight the contributions of an estimated 68 million women who might otherwise go unrecognised historical records. Findmypast fo

Dear Simon, My daughter, Wendy, and I have enjoyed so many visits to Singapore, and this year we felt it was about time we put our thoughts and experiences down on paper. Sir Stamford Raffles was knig

YOU don’t even speak to him. I don’t understand why we have to go.” Mia was being difficult again. Eliza glanced at her daughter’s pouting face in the rear view mirror, and her slight crow’s feet deep

I am writing in connection with Sarah Williams’ article “What’s in a Name” in the July issue of the magazine. My great great grandmother, Ann Rogers Wardleworth née Bell, was widowed in 1860 at the ag

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

A short while after we married, Tom and I made the decision to leave behind our hectic London lives and relocate to the tranquillity of rural living. We wanted a slower pace of life where the countrys