Fundraising brochure, 1925

We rarely have a plan for our campervan adventures, preferring instead to point our noses in a general direction of travel and play it by ear. This summer in the UK was no exception as we left our hom

Without the generosity of one remarkable man, Sir James Roberts, the Brontë Parsonage Museum might never have come to be. Roberts’ own rags-to-riches story sounds like something from a book. He was bo

As many of my roots are in Suffolk I was interested to read your recent article on Suffolk resources. I was not previously aware of the Suffolk Records Society so will look into their holdings with in

Discover how Biba earned its spot as the brand that epitomises 1960s and 1970s fashion, sparking a revolution in how people shopped. An exhibition looking at how fashion phenomenon Biba blossomed to b

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

The Penal Laws of the 1690s restricted the ability of Irish Catholics to access education by prohibiting the establishment of Catholic schools. Catholic children were instead taught in informal school