Nick Kingsley

Renationalisation of British Steel completed The government announced on July 16 that it had completed the process of taking British Steel into public ownership. The move follows the Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Act receiving Royal Assent and comes af... See more

Tyndale-Biscoe of Holton Park Biscoe of Holton Park This family are believed to have originated in the West Country, but by the late 17th century they were established in London as apothecaries and later lawyers. Joseph Biscoe (1672?-1750), with whom the ... See more

Birch of Wretham Hall This family were settled as farmers and nailmakers in the villages north of Birmingham by the 16th and early 17th centuries. They were kin to the Birch family of Birch Hall, Manchester (who, although an ancient family, will not be th... See more

Bill of Farley Hall Many landed families owe their status to one or two individuals who have brought the family game-changing wealth or power through their abilities in politics, the law, the armed services, or industry. Not so the Bills, whose rise into ... See more

Biggs of Stockton The Biggs family were yeomen farmers in south Wiltshire who leased gradually increasing areas of farmland in the 17th and early 18th centuries, chiefly from the Earls of Pembroke. From 1681, Tristram Biggs (d. 1721) was tenant of one of ... See more