‘my 19th-century relations policed the streets of liverpool’

Q One of the photos is of my paternal grandmother in what I’m sure is a VAD uniform but I can’t find her listed anywhere. I’m assuming this was c. 1914/16, as my father was born early 1918. She was bo

As a professional genealogist I’m sometimes asked to carry out research into a particular individual – to, in effect, compile a biography. These requests most frequently come from one of my oldest and

A tree bunny put on Facebook by the Small Press Rescue Centre. We are always glad to receive pictures of spontaneous forms and figures, or any curious images. Send them (with your postal address) to F

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset NICOLA MORRIS is a genealogist based in Dublin (timeline.ie) JAYNE SHRIMPTO

TWISTED BY HIS ANGER TOWARDS HIS MOTHER AND MOTHER-IN-LAW, JOHN WAYNE GLOVER PREYED ON VULNERABLE FEMALE PENSIONERS IN SYDNEY