Tall Tales from the Trees

As I write, the new British government has just appointed a homophobic, karaoke-loving Conservative who voted against equal pay for wom...

Richard Henry Fitzherbert is an ancestor-by-marriage if there is such a thing. His second wife was Susan Castle (1824-1894), a daughter...

Read Part 1 here! Two of the earliest letters which I found in my father’s desk after his death are from a French woman who signs herse...

Earlier this year I opened a big can of worms. All his life my father kept significant correspondence  which he’d received, letters of ...