This Intrepid Band

Our perception of 'correctness' and 'incorrectness' today is certainly at odds with society a hundred years ago (which we al...

The National Archives have today added the WO399 class of records to DocumentsOnline. The series comprises almost 16,000 service records of ...

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. ...