‘the mention of a castle provided a crucial clue’

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

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books PAUL BLAKE is the author of Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset JAYNE SHRIMPTO

Discover the beautiful farmhouse where Anne Hathaway was born; the romantic idyll, with its overflowing gardens, where she and the young William Shakespeare fell in love

In an ordinary county in the English Midlands, one writer found and shared the extra ordinary.

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

A classified advert published in the 15 August 1912 issue of weekly Australian news magazine The Bulletin reads, “Mrs C Skingley of No 1 Victoria Road, Oxney Green, Writtle near Chelmsford, England, w