‘my ancestor was on the cutty sark’s hell voyage’

How she turned rejection into lifelong fortune, favour and independence

Chen Reiss, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Daniel Behle, Tareq Nazmi; Le Cercle de l’Harmonie et al/Jérémie Rhorer Alpha Classics ALPHA1111 71:40 mins This is the second historically informed recording of Beetho

Alfred and Bede. These are the two figures who tower over the first half-millennium of the history of Anglo-Saxon England. There’s a reason for that, of course: they wrote this history. The Venerable

I use a lot of images in my blogs, published articles and presentations. Some are photos of people. Many are diagrams, graphs or copies of documents from parish registers, books and articles or websit

One day late in 1939, a small article appeared in our daily newspaper. It was submitted by the government and was an appeal for British women to knit socks for men in the army, which was unable to obt