Wendy Percival

The Prime Minister spoke this week about the current Coronavirus situation being the biggest crisis in a generation which made me think about the horrors our...

I'm lucky to have amongst my family treasures four beautiful embroidered postcards, known as "WWI silks" sent from the front during the First World War. Acco...

I signed off last week's blog post (Mystery of George's WWI wound) lamenting the fact that I had no photograph of my great uncle, George Diggory, in his WWI ...

A photograph of my great-uncle Tom Diggory, my gran's older brother, always stood proudly on my gran's mantelpiece. Tom had been wounded in WW1 and the photo...

Last week we went to see the stage production of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse at The New Theatre, Oxford. The story of War Horse tells of the horror of the b...