Today will be chillier and very windy, with a mixture of variable cloud and bright spells in between. Largely dry, but the odd shower may drift in from the north-west early on. Tonight Tonight ...

Abolitionist and writer Harriet Jacobs, born in North Carolina, travelled to Steventon, Oxfordshire, in 1845. She described visiting "little thatched cottages" and said she did not see "the ...