3/3 The war memorial at Sweffling, Suffolk, with Ernest Leggett's name on it. It's a reminder that these are parish war memorials, not village ones. Leggett may well have lived close to Bruisyard and attended church there, but his home was on the Sweffling side of the border.

Yes, they were lucky to be out of the main sphere of the fighting, but being under seige brought horrors of another kind. The little girl in the photo, born in 1916, was named Salonica Reynolds in tribute (a not uncommon practice during WWI), though to us she was always my mum's Aunt Lon.

2/2 And here's the Bruisyard parish war memorial with the same names on it, except for Ernest Leggett. He was from the neighbouring parish of Sweffling, and he's on the war memorial there. #ArmisticeDay

I've never been to the USA, and presumably never will, but I've also never seen 'The Wire', and so my image of Baltimore is a positive one, and entirely formed by a cult 1988 film...

My son's a fan of Baltimore, especially the seafood!

It would be easy to think the world was a terrible place, especially if one was to spend too much time on social media. But I'm sure from their perspective it would seem pretty wonderful in 2025 compared with 1918.

Yes, I think both those things in equal measure, and perhaps hope for the future.

3/3 St Martin cuts his cloak to share with a beggar in 15th Century glass, another one from Musée de Cluny, Paris. Today's the feast of St Martin.

2/2 St Martin of Tours cuts his cloak to share with a beggar in a 14th Century wall painting at Nassington, Northamptonshire. He's one of the national saints of France, as well as being invoked against poverty and alcoholism.

3/3 Peace Day celebrations, Parkers Piece, Cambridge, 19 June 1919. The happy workers gather for a group photo. My Grandmother Win is at the right hand end of the front row. The Treaty of Versailles will be signed 9 days later, storing up horrors for the decades ahead, but that's all in the future.

2/3 And the men came home. My great-grandfather Tom Reynolds, 1st Suffolks, and his family in a Cambridge photo studio in early 1919 after his return from Salonika. He would go back to his job as a drayman with the Star Brewery on Newmarket Road. His eldest daughter, my grandmother Win, sits centre.

2/2 William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1598 in St Martin, Stamford. His plan for a wholly protestant British Isles involved alliances with Scotland and the complete subjugation of Ireland. The former would be successful, the tragic consequences of the latter still ramify today.

Sorry, no. I was just passing through Teigh on a bike ride, and noticed it.

3/3 John Cecil's 1704 memorial, shoehorned into the somewhat cluttered Cecil chapel at St Martin, Stamford. There are plenty of other Cecil memorials in here, and this is the most imposing, though perhaps not as grand as the 1598 memorial to William Cecil in the chancel.

2/3 Victory and Art on the 1704 memorial to John Cecil at St Martin, Stamford. Cecil was a wealthy traveller, buying up more than 300 art objects for his home Burghley House on his trips to the continent. On one trip alone he spent today's equivalent of half a million pounds.

3/3 Epstein's portrait of the painter Isabel Nicholas in the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. Another of Epstein's lovers, and the mother of his youngest child Jackie. Not sure that this one will make it through the censorship filters! Epstein was born #OTD 10 November 1880.

2/3 Meum Lindsell by Epstein in Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow. She was one of Epstein's many lovers, the mother of his eldest child Peggy. It's said that his wife Margaret tolerated his infidelities and the children they brought, though she did shoot one of them, Kathleen Garman, in the shoulder!