Tall Tales from the Trees

My ancestral cousin Talfourd was a lawyer whose Old Bailey caseload has been the source of a few articles on this blog. He was moderate...

I’ve been writing about books recently, those handed down from generation to generation in my family, and the inscriptions inside them....

Everybody needs a hobby. Frederic Merrifield was my great aunt’s grandfather and a successful barrister on the south coast of England; ...

The one thing that everyone knows about my great great aunt Margaret (if they’ve heard of her at all) is that she received the psychic cr...

There is a strong non-conformist streak that runs through many of the branches of my family tree: Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, broug...