Alan Crosby shares his views on family history
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A loaf of bread: what could be more prosaic and everyday than that? It was the staple of existence itself for our forebears. Think of the familiar line from the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread.”
But the reality was not quite so simple. For most people living in the north and west of these islands, the staple food