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As I ’ ve said before , one of my grandfathers was Nat Bannister, a Jew, a lithographer, and a radical at least in his early days. He spent ...

It was a strange feeling setting the address for my mother’s flat into my car’s GPS for the last time. Even stranger turning up there and se...

The young man who was released from Dartmoor Prison at the end of the First World War, and who would later be my grandfather, had been a ra...

Flying log entries 20.9.44. No. 18. Operation Holland: 20 containers: 4 panniers. Heavy flak damage – B/A wounded. Crash landed Alost Be...

Henry Dundas, his long-time friend and political ally, is said to have wagered £500 that William Pitt the Younger never touched a woman. P...

There was a time when to be a British Jew was virtually tantamount to being a Labour Party supporter. That was the case of the Jewish side...

They tell you about death as dire but inevitable, a dread we all must face. They tell you about death as bereavement and loss, as a pain t...