Tall Tales from the Trees

I am not one to glorify war or the injuries of war. I don’t think it’s clever of nations to send their finest young men and women to dea...

There’s very little documentary evidence for my Merseyside great great uncle Eyre’s life: records of his baptism, marriage and death, a...

John Cozens, an ancestor by marriage of my Pilkington cousins, was a grocer in Norwich at the end of the eighteenth century. His shop ...

I realise that I have unwittingly been following a family tradition in not ever writing here about the Norfolk branch of my Gurney ante...