This is a big day here - our first ever "History Boy" posting for us! And it's Kevin Crossley-Holland, which is a bit like hav...

I have belonged to the National Trust for nearly thirty years now. I joined while visiting Moreton Hall in Cheshire. I was with a group from...

This is the Grafton portrait, which came to public notice in 1907, having hung in the parlour of a farmhouse since the 17th Century. Rese...

I asked a 6 year old the other day, if she knew what history was. She replied that she thought it was about people. Then after some though...

So often, it's everyday details that give you a feel for the past. You can read a whole dissertation on the trials of domestic service,...

By Essie Fox Walter Sickert In her book  Portrait of a Killer, Jack the Ripper: Case Closed  the American author Patricia Cornwell cl...

My mother-in-law, Wilma Wilson, died a year ago last Friday. So now I have nobody to phone up and ask how you make butter (for 'Malefice...