Category: UK News

  • Marika Sherwood:  1937 – 2025

    Marika Sherwood: 1937 – 2025

    Faversham historian Marika Sherwood passed away on 16th February 2025. Despite limited mobility in recent years, she had been a loyal supporter of FVRSG since its inception, and many of our members will have met her and will remember her. She led a full life, wrote a huge amount of books and articles, contributed to…

  • “UK to deny citizenship to small boat refugees”

    “UK to deny citizenship to small boat refugees”

    The BBC is reporting that the Labour Government has “toughened up rules making it almost impossible for a refugee who arrives in the UK on a small boat to become a British citizen.“ New guidance states that anyone who enters the UK illegally having made a dangerous journey, which could be via boat, but also…