Making progress in the classroom
	5:13pm Wed 27 Jul 05
	Classes in Barnet used to be taught by children as young as 14, but PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD wonder how many readers could match their powers of arithmetic

	How our world changed forever 60 years ago
	3:28pm Thu 14 Jul 05
	Sixty years since the end of World War Two, Times Group historians Percy Reboul and John Heathfield have published an expanded and newly illustrated version of their classic book Barnet at War. For the first time, it includes a complete list of the borough's civilian war dead. Here it is reviewed by Gerrard Roots, curator of Hendon's Church Farmhouse Museum

	Tragedy befell the House of Lancaster
	1:19pm Thu 24 Mar 05
	On a misty morning in 1471 the houses of York and Lancaster clashed swords for no lesser prize than the throne of England, write Times Group historians PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD

	Lord’s share of the landscape
	2:19pm Thu 17 Feb 05
	Lords of the Manor were not always lords, or even living on the manor, but life in Barnet would not have been the same without them, write PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD

	Bringing out the dead
	3:37pm Thu 3 Feb 05
	A growing population and the influx of new customs have prompted a change in our attitudes towards burials and funerals, write John Heathfield and Percy Reboul

	Oldest Great War veteran looks back
	5:18pm Tue 21 Dec 04
	At the age of 108, Henry Allingham is the oldest of only 21 living British veterans of the First World War. He talks to ALEX GALBINSKI You didn't have time to feel frightened you had too much to think about," said Henry Allingham, a veteran of the battles of Jutland and Ypres.

	Celebrating Christmas in peace
	4:15pm Thu 16 Dec 04
	People may have had less, but Christmas in days gone by was about more than just buying presents, according to Times Group historians PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD If, like Scrooge in Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol, we were forced to look at Christmases past, we would see that a number were celebrated in less fortunate times: notably Christmas 1918.

Tribute to a pioneering pilot

11:49am Thursday 29th July 2004

by JOANNE NEWMAN

	The day we hit the Normandy beaches
	5:11pm Wed 2 Jun 04
	Sunday is the 60th anniversary of D-Day - the Allied invasion of Europe that truly changed the world. PETER STEBBINGS talks to two men who were there "We left Southampton at 9.30pm on June 5 on an enormous US landing craft. It was barely light. At 3.30am they woke us up and gave us some food, but I didn't feel like eating. The tension was building up inside me. At 6am we landed on Gold Beach."

	Hero's colourful life
	2:24pm Wed 2 Jun 04
	Details of the life of war hero Drummer Dudley Stagpoole were emerging this week - and it appears he was a keen drinker and something of a ladies' man.

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