There’s a campaign trying to convince you that Plymouth is broken - and that only a directly elected mayor can fix it. It’s a well-worn...

Good to be back Into Thin Air once more after thirty-month absence. Why the absence? I just lost the plot about updating my service...

This grey February day I had an unexpected hour to while away. Through some ‘idle googling’ I happened onto the Plymouth Trail App...

Why a ‘Potpourri’ I asked myself in looking at the title? Is It simply a synonym for miscellany - the ‘medley of short stories’ of the...

It took more than half a century of campaigning before the right to vote in general elections was extended to some women. Lady Nancy...

The State Opening marks the beginning of a parliamentary session when the Queen formally opens parliament and delivers a speech outlining...

Through her memoire Helen the historian brings to life the story of community and politics in Sheffield and South Yorkshire between the...

Rachel Carson was born one hundred and fourteen years ago, on 27th May 1907 in Springdale Pennsylvania. Her mother instilled in her a...

It is Victorian Bristol 1864 and Louisa Grey emerges as a young sleuth with talent aplenty from the pages of this crime novel, the first...

on 25th April 2021 which would have been her 100th birthday My mother was born Gwen Gray on 25th April 1921 in Croydon. As the centenary...

Sloane brings to her writing a wealth of practical experience of the ongoing struggle to acquire and use political power to change the...

rolling with the dice, retaining your inner core, releasing the ties that bind, remembering one day we are all dust into dust, no more...

The first volume covers the years 1918 to 1996 and contains 168 profiles of women elected to represent constituencies from Aberdeen to...

This is one of three mini bios I contributed to Honourable Ladies Volume 1 Full name Lucy (Annie) Middleton (nee Cox) Date of birth 19...

This mini bio is one of four which I contributed to The Honourable Ladies Volume 2 Full name Candice Kathleen Atherton Date of birth...

Plymouth people – including women using their vote for the first time – made history in 1919 when they played their part in electing Lady...

Originally published in the Summer 2020 edition of Order! Order! Was Frances Perkins "The most influential woman in democratic politics...

is a place where time intercepts what timelessness is left of the tall forest canopies slighter trees weighted with precious bean...

My involvement with Fairtrade chocolate and cocoa began by chance in late 2000. One lunchtime I took a break from the Westminster...

older and wiser than any living thing around these pendunculate oaks give ground to nothing and no one, the roots like tentacles trying...