Gibraltar has been under British control since at least 1713 when the Treaty of Utrecht, signed between France and the ...
Algernon Villiers was a young, married, man who was keen to volunteer in 1914. Amongst so many, he was killed in 1917.
The two ilegitimate children of William, first earl Cowper, and his near neighbour, the heiress Elizabeth Culling survived their mother and ...
Reading letters from one major statesman to another can reveal more than just the plain facts of a political change ...
A grateful survivor comments on rapacious villagers
What are the little things (and not so little) that have to be decided before you join one independent nation ...
The landscape gardener, Humphry Repton, died 200 years ago on 24 March 1818. Among the events commemorating his life and ...
In the early eighteenth century the land of America was wild and dangerous. This was particularly true when the War ...
January - December 1885 D/ESo/C2
The diaries and notebooks of Harriet Susanna Tyrwhitt Drake provide a picture of the duties of a vicar's wife and also chart the growth of the Mothers' Union in the St Albans diocese.
The Amy Wright (1910 – 1997) was a wife and mother of six who, originally from Yorkshire, moved to Watford ...
Eighteenth century anger against immigrants.
It is always worth looking at how attitudes have evolved and the HALS archives are a rich resource in documentary ...