The not-so thin blue line: Descendant of Britain’s 25-stone fattest police officer ‘PC Tubby’ who served in the 1880s and inspired the ‘Laughing Policeman’ song follows in his footsteps by joining the same force PC John William Stephens served in Leicestershire Police in the 1880s and ’90s His great-great-great grandson Dan Challis has joined the force … Read more
A descendant of mysterious seventeenth century spy and man of letters Fulke Greville has won an extraordinary battle to reclaim a sword that once belonged to his forbear, amid claims it had been ‘stolen’ from his tomb by the Earls of Warwick British writer and historian Rene Greville, has won possession of the sword after … Read more
A black poet was shocked to learn that he is the descendant of slaves, slave traders, a prime minister and the first black international footballer. Malik Al Nasir, born in 1966 in Toxteth, Liverpool, noticed he looked similar to a black Victorian footballer and went on a 15 year journey into his family history, uncovering … Read more