From Women in Love to Sunday Bloody Sunday, we celebrate the film and TV career of Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87: the only MP with two Oscars to her name.
Clearing out my parents’ homes helped me piece together my missing past
My parents love affair was a scandal that defined our lives. Only now, thanks to their belongings, have I learned what really happened
Rory Cellan-Jones discovered so much more about his upbringing
Credit: Clara Molden
Even before my mother died and I had to clear out her shambolic flat, I knew she was a terrible hoarder. Nothing was ever thrown away. There were letters under the bed, in the dressing table, all covered in dust.
But, then, Sylvia Rich was from that letter-writing generation. She had sisters in Birmingham and Bedfordshire, and they used to write to one another every week; she kept all their correspondence. She also kept the carbon copies of every letter she had written while working for decades as a secretary at the BBC after the war. By the time she died in 1996, aged 81, the tiny flat she had lived in for most of her life was full of paper.