Whipsnade Zoo Keeper ploughing paddocks with Dixie the elephant,  1940.  Source: Zoo and Animal Magazine, 1939/40.  Lucy Pendar’s father, Al...

photo: Rex Shutterstock Judith Kerr, esteemed writer and illustrator of children’s and young adult books, died last week aged 95. I had ...

On April 21st Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Head of the Commonwealth and ...

Refugees in small boats are much in the news, with governments determined to stop them coming, send them back, or keep them incarcerat...