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Focusing on the history of one place has its upsides, but there are rewards for looking more widely, sharing with other local historians and…

It first appeared in New Zealand law in the Crimes Act 1961, but the history of sabotage in this country dates back much further.

TODAY many urbanites can’t wait to get into the country, especially in the summer, but it was not always like that. Roads were often very poor and…

Former Norwich City chairman and shadow chancellor Ed Balls is set to appear in an episode of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?.

Former Norwich City chairman and shadow chancellor Ed Balls is set to appear in an episode of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?.

Ed Balls reveals that he was "quite worried" after discovering his four times great grandfather was a criminal on the BBCs Who Do You Think You Are.

FOR hundreds of years, individuals – all male, unpaid and with no requirement for legal training – were rubber-stamped as JPs onto the Commission of the Peace, to run local government and sit in judgement in the lower courts. The only condition was that they owned freehold land of a certain value (latterly £100), and had the approval of the Chancellor (in practice the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire) who awarded a dedimus potestatem writ (meaning ‘we have given the power’). Lists of h...

Blood for Blood says General Ludd Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood, His feats I but little admire, I will sing the Achievements of General Ludd Now the Hero of Nottinghamshire Brave Ludd was to measures of violence unused Till his sufferings became so severe That at last to defend his own Interest he rous’d And for the great work did prepare. Ned Ludd, aka Captain, General or King Ludd, first turned up as part of a Nottingham protest in November 1811, and was soon on the mo...