If you are a big, strong man you may not know this. Here are a few tips and thoughtful advice about how to shake hands with a woman. It happens all the time and you may not know it; but your big, strong and ample hands may be causing pain when you shake hands with a lady. The last thing you want to do is hurt someone, especially a lady by shaking her hand.

Recent research undertaken in Norway indicates that women smokers may be more at risk than men when it comes to health and disease, with women being more likely to contract cancer. The research covered a wide spectrum, with the experts sifting through over half a million patient records.

I’m always on the look out for interesting people from British history that seem to have passed me by. In my school history lessons all the bog standard events and prominent characters were trotted out but now, some 35-40 years later, I’m far more interested in characters and events that are not well known but deserve to be. Such is the case with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson