ALAN CROSBY lives in Lancashire and is the editor of The Local Historian
Summers were always longer, sunnier and more idyllic in the past, weren’t they? Well, maybe for some – but for many of our ancestors this was the hardest part of the year. The long days meant very long hours in the fields, and exhaustion by nightfall. As regular readers will know, I’m interested in diaries and journals as a historical source,
