On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

During the third week of February 1944 the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever roun..

In The Pattern in the Carpet Margaret Drabble tells the history of the jigsaw a uniquely British for..

The railway system during World War 2 was the lifeline of the nation replacing road transport and me..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

Tired of endless tarmac and keen to see more on his travels than the tail-lights of the car in front..

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landsca..

Dublin November 1856. George Little the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus is found de..

Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor he has been a valuable member of the police force for over 20 years five ..

The third book in the Seaside Practice Trilogy which started with A Seaside Practice and continued w..

On the Slow Train is an unashamed tug at the heartstrings harking back to a time before Dr Beeching ..

On capture British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans “For you the war is over”..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard ..

All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the danger..

While their husbands brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers sisters and friends..

Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington could easily have..

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

We take summer holidays for granted but back in the 1940s war had gripped Britain. Bombs fell beache..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..

Once upon a time there lived a happy family called the Maitlands. Until October 2012 when Iain recei..

On Saturday 15th April 1989 Jenni Hicks her husband Trevor and their two daughters Sarah and Vicki w..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

At 10.41a.m. on a Tuesday morning in September Mark Mason boards the number 1A bus at Land’s End. ..

Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..

Picking up from where his first memoir left off Dr Tom is back with more of his gloriously eccentric..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and..

Czechoslovakia October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestig..

Lynda Bellingham died in her husband Michael's arms on 19th October 2014. Lynda touched many lives i..

On 11th November 1920 huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior..

After getting shot down in the skies over France in the winter of 1939 airman Robert Bozdech stumble..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

We all want to be successful in life and to be remembered for our achievements - but how can we do ..

Doctors nurses medics and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for..

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

Joan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. As an 8-year-old she ..

This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive quriky beautiful and sometimes baff..

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements buying fan..

'I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this ..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

Matt Baker is happiest on the farm. Away from the bright lights of hosting our favourite television ..

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife when c..

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

When Helen Batten’s marriage breaks down she starts on a journey of discovery into her family’s ..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..

In 1940 Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one the nations of Europe had fallen and ..

Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stre..

I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma’s buttons as they scattered from their Quality ..

At 75 Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing including starting a..

I'm a librarian. I serve the regulars the crime enthusiasts the bookworms the homeless the eccentric..

If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman Ian McMillan would be it. But he has been ..

When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..

Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..

On the Slow Train is an unashamed tug at the heartstrings harking back to a time before Dr Beeching ..

'This is not quite a memoir. Rather it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself this p..

The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the rai..

Consisting of articles taken from his popular column in The Yorkshire Post Julian Norton's The Diary..

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission deep behind ene..

In 1914 the world changed forever when World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to f..

Over the years authors artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames and now travel w..

Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks Tom Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. Fro..

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

The Second World War is dominated by heroic tales of men defending their country against a formidabl..

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

Emily Soldene's life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading lady and a formidable impresa..

September 1939. For years now Britain has been rudderless divided and grievously unequal. When war b..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a..

Written with her daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones this is a life-affirming account of the time Vera Lyn..

Meadowland gives a unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to Decembe..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth famil..

As Hitler’s bombs threatened London during World War Two eight-year-old David Merron was removed f..

For over a decade Stephanie Green was a doctor on-call for one of the world's busiest airports confr..

Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies packed his notepad and set off in search of B..

Jonathan Cranston is no ordinary vet. In addition to his day job in the Gloucestershire countryside ..

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

Emil Zátopek won five Olympic medals set 18 world records and went undefeated over 10000 metres for..

Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness ..

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..