From Old Master paintings to prints, ceramics and furniture, the Sandys family’s art collection tells a story of politics, personal taste and ancestry. For centuries, the Sandys family collected art, turning Ombersley Court into something as much like a gallery as a home. Whilst a number were commissioned or purchased directly from artists, others were...

Why Archaeologists No Longer Use the Term “Deviant Burial”- Evidence from Milestone Ground, Broadway In archaeology, terminology matters. The words we use shape how we interpret the past and how it is understood by the public. One term that is increasingly falling out of use is “deviant burial” – a description once commonly applied to...

In this our last post in the series around the 1921 census Claire gives an example of how things are not always as you’d expect and the need to be tenacious:  I was looking for my grandfather Albert Leslie Trussler born 1899 in Surrey. You would expect with a name like that it would  be...