What do chickens and feather beds have in common? Well, not much apart from the fact that chickens are a type of bird, and feather beds utilise feathers from the ...
Everyone who works, or has worked, in an archive will tell you that you go looking for one thing, and you come across something entirely different. This happened to me ...
Imagine the scene: it was midnight on 1st August 1876 and Hugh Glover, a boatman from Gloucester, was busy getting through a lock on the canal at Aston. He was ...
