‘my ancestors were mps with royal connections’ with a dna test as her starting point, lynsey ford followed a trail that led from humble ‘ag labs’ back to the movers and shakers of the 15th and 16th centuries, she tells claire vaughan

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 19 September cbso.co.uk From pop-ups in the Bullring and New Street Station to five premieres and a series aimed at rethinking the conc

When I think about challenging family history problems – those knotty “brick walls” that have defied our attempts to solve them for months or perhaps years – I think about two basic divisions of genea

Were the seeds of Civil War already written into the American Constitution?

As anyone who reads these pages knows, history has become political – especially discussions about our imperial past. So The Truth About Empire (Hurst), a collection of essays edited by Alan Lester, i