100 years and one day since Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton launched Save the Children at a packed public meeting at the Royal ...

‘How to Knit Gloves’ (for the Edwardian James Bond), 1911 ‘Gloves are not very difficult to knit’, my grandmother wrote in 1911. A rath...

Article first published in History Today , 12 April 2016. ‘I shall never play at Twickenham again’, twenty-five year old Lt Ronald Poul...

Sorting through some family papers recently, my mother came across a handsome gentleman’s silver cigarette case. The initials ‘LM’, etched s...

‘We have to devise a means of making known the facts  in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world.’  Eglantyne Jebb   P...