Author: Marilyn Yurdan

Elizabeth Ambler started compiling her household book of cures in the early eighteenth century, including historic treatments passed down over the ...

Our ancestors effigies, portraits in brass and monumental inscriptions are one of the few ways in which humans can find some sort of immortality, a...

Marilyn Yurdan was born in Oxford and has spent most of her life in her native county. _The Dark Side of Oxford_ is her 26th local and family histo...

The people of Oxfordshire certainly know how to enjoy themselves, and take part in many varied and remarkable customs, sports and traditions that a...

What was life really like in a grammar school in the 1950s and 60s? For those educated at a grammar school during their heyday, this time holds ver...

Oxfordshires best-known employers are the manufacturers of cars, blankets and cakes, as well as those dealing in tourism, education and publishing....

The nursery rhyme 'Ride a Cock Horse' has made Banbury one of the best-known towns in England. It is also famed for Banbury cakes and its Cross. On...