This Intrepid Band

Is it time for New Year Resolutions yet? Never mind. May I offer up a prayer that at some future time there will be more awareness about mi...

Julian Fellowes was rather upset last year about criticisms pointing out inaccuracies in the first series of Downton Abbey: "There was ...

I was a keen follower of the first series of Downton Abbey. As someone from a working-class background I’ve never been too keen on toffs, bu...

While doing some work on my transcription of the official war diary of Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief with the British Expeditionary Force, ...

A bit of nosing around in service files at The National Archives yesterday has resulted in some more surnames in the diary being confirmed. ...

I've been asked to post this information to try and find present day relatives of some of those named in Edith Appleton's diary. Th...

I was very excited to wake up early on Sunday morning and find an email on my phone telling me that one of my book 'wants' had turne...