William Booth was born on Hall End Farm near Beaudesert, Warwickshire in 1776. Son of a church warden and farmer, he was one of eight children. In around 1799, he ...
Labour shortages caused by men joining the Armed Forces during the First World War led to many companies seeking help from overseas. One such organisation was Rugby-based engineering firm Willans ...
Archives are full of unexpected things. Century old secrets can be read in countless bundles of personal letters, and evidence for all sorts of events pieced together using various accounts ...
Dancing had always been my passion – much to the chagrin of my headmistress, at King’s High, Miss Hare – and although I eventually had a professional dancing career and ...
During the war the pupils had to go over the Ladder Bridge to Shrubland Street for cookery and woodwork.
All railings were removed to be melted down for ammunitions. Some householders ...
The sentence of transportation was passed on a very great number of people found guilty of a wide variety of crimes during the 18th and 19th centuries. Periods of 7, ...
These embroidered postcards were largely produced by French and Belgian women embroidering strips of silk mesh, which were then cut and mounted on postcards. They were very popular with British ...
