Author: Sheila Hardy

Embarking on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. From how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to ...

During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries arsenic was readily available to the general public; indeed it was prescribed by doctors as a ...

Eliza Acton is the forgotten hero of our culinary past. A debt of gratitude to her is what Delia Smith, Elizabeth David and Mrs Beeton have in comm...

Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their job...

This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Suffolk during the last 200 years. Cases of murder, robbery, ch...

Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their job...