If genealogy features among your new year resolutions, this may be for you.
Category: Local/labour history
Hannah More and the Lady of the Haystack
An extraordinary tale of two very different women and still one of history’s mysteries
‘Philanthropy gone mad’?
Siting a psychiatric hospital has brought out the worst in politicians and the press for centuries.
Hark the Herald sings again
As ‘the first draft of history’ old newspapers can remind us of past achievements and missed opportunities.
From Cromwell to Kit Carson
A lifetime of adventure and research has turned John Pimm into Glenside Museum’s ‘history man’.