The Past Sure is Tense

It is long voyage in itself re-reading this leviathan of a book, but here is a curious thing. On page 131 of my edition (the old Penguin edi...

A recent edition of the excellent  Birdwatch magazine had a remarkable piece on a historic ornithological scandal that is known as the '...

More on the agricultural/food-growing theme. The 'Dig For Victory' campaign of WW2 is well established in folk memory; in people ove...

I believe that the well-known tradition of East End families decanting to Kent to spend a few bucolic weeks in late summer hop-picking persi...

Sometimes the name just leaps off the page, and there is a breathless moment where one asks: 'Really? Is that him/her?' Try these re...

I was glad to read that the Linnean Society has recently catalogued the vast collection of correspondence (around 1200 letters!) of the phys...

It's a small world, so they say, and it can sometimes seem like that in the field of historical research: people crop up in the most une...