In the latest of our occasional features on famous people who once called Bury home, reporter Neil Brandwood looks at one of ...

The stubbornly disheveled, snub-nosed 11-year-old protagonist of the writer Richmal Crompton’s wildly popular “Just William” stories, 100 this year, is an astutely rendered portrait of a ...

Although the first story featuring schoolboy William Brown was published in a magazine in 1919, it was the release of author Richmal Crompton's first book about the 11-year-old schoolboy that spar ...

Looking back, the February 1919 edition of Home magazine seems perhaps an odd place for the adventures of William Brown to begin. The periodical was aimed at women, with the associated features ...

It's 100 years since Richmal Crompton published her first collection of short stories about an unruly, scruffy 11-year-old boy called William Brown. In that time, William has burst the bounds of the ...

Created by novelist Richmal Crompton, he made his debut 100 years ago when her first Just William book was published in 1922. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Over the following century ...

Dr Jane McVeigh explores Just William author Richmal Crompton's relationship with the BBC. In February 1947, a comparison between the recording of the BBC radio play, “The Mystery of the Elms ...

Most readers thought Richmal Crompton Lamburn was a man. So shy was she that she did not disabuse them of the notion, even as her anarchic, disruptive schoolboy, shown with his cap askew and tie ...

Richmal Crompton, who died in 1969, remains best known as the author of the many “Just William” ­stories, published throughout her lifetime. But, in the 1920s, she was also a prolific ...

The property, which has been in the ownership of one family for more than 60 years, has literary connections with the National Heritage List for England (NHLE); Richmal Crompton, author of ...

In February 1947, a comparison between the recording of the BBC radio play, “The Mystery of the Elms” by Richmal Crompton, and the only available copy of this script, which is taken by David S ...