WILLIAM LEE, a fiery young English curate with radical leanings, went one day, some three hundred and fifty years ago, to call upon Cecily Yorke, soon to be his bride. Like most men and all radicals, ...

William Lee was so fed up with his girlfriend's passion for knitting he produced his own textile machine. Nottinghamshire has strong links with the textile industry. Although it's more readily ...

Silk stockings were hard to come by and before the Americans arrived with nylon stockings, girls painted their legs with gravy browning and drew a black line down their leg with a pencil to look like ...