Women and the crime of bigamy

Crime has always been popular with family historians. We all love a rogue (up to a point, anyway), and finding out you’re related to one can lead to some interesting avenues of research. The more seri

KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset REBECCA PROBERT is professor of law at the University of Exeter STEVE THOMAS is a genealogist with over 20 years’ experience PHIL TOMASELLI is a mi

Essex: A county bounded by water, flat, marshy and called by some the “graveyard of witches”. Between 1500 and 1800 over 1,000 men, women and children were executed for the crime of witchcraft in the

Did a 4-year-old really hold the answer to an unsolved murder?

Anonymous says the immigration system is broken beyond repair, thanks to activist barristers and a hopeless Home Office

Discover the last surviving court of houses that once dominated the Midlands, and hear the stories of the workers who built Britain’s second city