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If you're keeping cash and jewellery at home, make sure someone knows where it is

Are you a spender or a saver? Money is for spending but we are entering an epoch in which ‘money’ as we know it – coins and banknotes – is...

Nigel Kirk

It was in the 18th and early 19th centuries that pedlars - itinerant vendors hawking their inexpensive small wares and brightly coloured toys and...

The other day I saw a particularly eye-catching advert for Jersey Royals. Quite why that iconic but pricey and delicious potato, 99% of which are...

The Victorians were obsessed with criminality, writes Nigel Kirk. They invented the notion of a ‘criminal class’, and the works of writers -...

Sometimes it’s the small disappointments in everyday life that leave you brooding on the big stuff, writes Pam Pearce. I was rocked by the sudden...