‘my tree includes a journalist, a bigamist and a bandmaster’

Unusually, my story begins at the end with the perplexing death certificate of my great grandfather William Taylor. William died aged 71 in May 1938, in Gosport, Hampshire, and the death was registere

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

Exploring the tangled roots of a family tree is rarely straightforward. What begins as a search for dates and names often unravels into something far more. A bit like rummaging through an old attic –

Time for a catch-up with a few of our memorable stories...

£50 Star letter

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the