The following blog tells the story of a uniquely transnational amah called Tuk-San. [1] Tuk-San was a Japanese woman who travelled with...

Returning from China, Thomas Hanbury arrived in Marseilles on 25 January 1858 and, before boarding the train for Paris, scribbled a quick...

Devout evangelical though he was, Walter Henry Medhurst was not above a touch of vanity, particularly when it came to sitting for his...

For as long as I can remember, a small pewter tea-pot with a jade handle and spout has been ‘part of the furniture’. So much so that in...

Tucked away in attics, trunks and shoe-boxes are heirlooms, letters and photographs that nobody has noticed or looked at for years and...

In 1951, Squadron-Leader John Hillier (Harold Hillier’s eldest son) was posted to Singapore with the RAF. He flew out whilst his wife and...

The family’s contribution to Covid-19 initiatives is in keeping with its responses to other natural disasters in the past. From the...

Post by Caroline Morris (daughter of Harold and Angela Hillier) April 2020 It was January 2017, and I had bronchitis for the first time. ...

(posted April 2020) Sadly, the wonderful exhibition of Tristram Hillier’s paintings in Taunton, Landscapes of the Mind, had to close...