Steve Richards
Jun 5, 2020
Where authority rests
While scientists seek to understand the COVID-19 virus; how to contain its spread; how it can be weakened through vaccination and...
Steve Richards
May 1, 2020
Hoping for the best
There have been a series of impressive light projections onto the exterior of Lichfield Cathedral. One of these featured the word HOPE...
Steve Richards
Apr 5, 2020
Clean hands
I would have been about 9 or 10 years old at the time. We were on a visit to the Clent Hills. My parents were there, my best mate Paul...
Steve Richards
Mar 6, 2020
Football crazy
A 10-year-old schoolboy named Daragh Curley wrote to the Liverpool football manager asking him to lose a few games so that his own...
Steve Richards
Nov 1, 2019
Out of the foreshadow into the light
Some of my mates are really into Star Trek and Doctor Who. I’m not really into sci-fi movies myself. I am a big fan, however, of Steven...
Steve Richards
Sep 6, 2019
The few and the many
As a World War Two historian, the month of September features large for me, one significant date being 15th September 1940, which is...
Steve Richards
Jul 5, 2019
Lost and found
‘Whenever we go into town as a family you’re always wandering off and getting lost.’ We are in a Cotswolds tearoom reminiscing about...
Steve Richards
Jun 8, 2018
Disconnected
Taking advantage of the recent glorious weather, we visited two rural attractions. At Batsford Arboretum there was a marvellous variety...
Steve Richards
Feb 2, 2018
A declaration of love
February, the month of St Valentine’s Day. Hardly anything is known about Valentine himself. It is believed that he was a Christian...
Steve Richards
Jun 2, 2017
Word and Spirit
This Sunday is what some mark as Whit Sunday. Whitsuntide is when we are reminded of the birth of the Christian Church, looking back to...