A nun’s love letter, 1878

The West Midlands is a modern ceremonial county encompassing parts of historic Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, including major cities such as Birmingham and Coventry, as well as the mo

What an interesting article “Visions of the Future” was in your April issue. It got me thinking about a photograph in our family album of my aunt Dolly working at Olympia when Queen Mary was being sho

The Tower at Vita’s home, Sissinghurst Castle ...

Best friends Dorothy Proietti and Gill Mattock volunteered together when they retired

Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

Life in the Victorian slums was balanced on a knife-edge; one late rent payment or missed meal could have fatal results. Born against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, urban areas swelled wit