Stephen Roberts

As Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary year draws to a close, Stephen Roberts takes a look at one of her other contemporaries at Christmas

Stephen Roberts looks back on the life of a silkman at birth, whose early musical influences turned him into the Godfather of British Blues

This Remembrance Day, take time to honour a special Hampshire civilian who lost his life at the hands of the Germans

Stephen Roberts reflects on award wins, rising demand and the 2026 strategy for North Devon Hospice

Ropley-born historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner made the 17th century his life’s work, fitting perhaps for a descendant of Oliver Cromwell

Stephen Roberts remembers the novelist, dramatist, screenwriter and diarist whose own dramatic times were recorded in words and on screen

Truro’s Henry Martyn was a man whose religious dedication led to his death aged just 31

Social Sharing How about this for a title? Senator Yvonne Jones. Senator Sarah Leo.

Elias Ashmole was a esoteric scholar, alchemy dabbler and the visionary whose bequest founded the Ashmolean Museum

Novelist Henry Fielding was most famous for his novel Tom Jones but also founded London’s Bow Street Runners, forerunner of today’s Metropolitan…