On Christmas Day Series

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Take Five: Christmas Illustrations

Dec 13, 2023

ILLUSTRATORS from the 19th century forged Britain’s view of Christmas (although, mercifully, season’s greetings featuring stabbed frogs have fallen out of fashion). Here’s our pick of five influential works: 1. Robert Seymour’s plates for The Book of

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Your Questions Answered

Feb 11, 2020

Q I am very keen to learn more about my father’s WW1 war years. I have a photo of him that I hope may hold clues. Jean Sutherland A Roderick Fraser Sutherland is wearing the cap badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and his attire tells us that he

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Scotland, The Isle Of Wight And Adelaide

May 14, 2021

Having been brought up in the shadow of his famous father, Alfred, and known about ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, ‘The Lady of Shalott’, and much else besides, Hallam Tennyson no doubt wished to map out a successful life of his own. Educated at M

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Help For Volcano Victims 1961

Oct 13, 2023

One the rarest Commonwealth issues regularly sold at post office counters during the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was produced in 1961 on the distant island of St. Helena between Africa and South America. When the neighbouring archipe

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Your Questions Answered

Oct 8, 2021

Q Please could you confirm whether the lady wearing a skirt and blouse in the single portrait could be the same person as the elderly lady sitting next to the groom in the wedding scene. The single lady is my grandmother, Margaret Fenn (née Kuliczkow

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An Utterly Uncivil War

May 18, 2022

( HOW lucky we are in these green and pleasant lands not to have had a savage constitutional crisis for the past 350 years. The spectre of violent constitutional turmoil does not haunt us (save perhaps in Northern Ireland), whereas almost every count