German son apologises for his Nazi grandfather by tracking down the descendents of Jewish shopkeeper whose hardware store he seized Thomas Edelmann, 49, wrote to Israeli Hanna Ehrenreich, 83, to apologise Her grandfather was forced to sell his store in Bad Mergentheim to the Nazi He fled Germany with his wife Emma a few weeks before … Read more
Descendants of Earl behind the maxim an ‘Englishman’s home is his castle’ plan new eco-mansion on 25,000-acre estate that will be powered by solar panels and ‘carbon negative’ in 60 years Jacobean jurist Sir Edward Coke built Holkham Hall, Norfolk in the 18th century He is noted for coining the maxim that ‘an Englishman’s home … Read more
Descendants of Earl behind the maxim an ‘Englishman’s home is his castle’ plan new eco-mansion on 25,000-acre estate that will be powered by solar panels and ‘carbon negative’ in 60 years Jacobean jurist Sir Edward Coke built Holkham Hall, Norfolk in the 18th century He is noted for coining the maxim that ‘an Englishman’s home … Read more
A photographer has recreated the portraits of famous historical figures using their direct descendants – and the results are strikingly similar to the originals. British artist Drew Gardner spent years carrying out in-depth research tracing the relatives and verifying their lineage before creating the collection – which includes replica images of Charles Dickens and Emmeline Pankhurst. To … Read more
Charles Dickens’s great-great grandsons have revealed an unprecedented insight into what the writer really looked like because of their ‘uncanny’ resemblance to him. Museum historians have harnessed the striking likeness by imprinting Gerald and Mark Dickens’s complexions on to black-and-white portraits of their ancestor. The remastered pictures show the Victorian author with fairly tanned skin … Read more