Month: June 2020
The telephone: ‘useless for postal purposes’
A 2016 survey by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) asked people what two possessions (non-living things) they’d save from a fire if they had three minutes to do safely. The results were Cr... Read More
William Jackson – no Mr Darcy
William Jackson, yeoman, of Yanwath, was 44 and a wealthy bachelor when he married Emma Pears in 1872. It’s hard not to read the marriage certificate without thinking of such great novels as Middlem... Read More