“Running Casualty is really very simple: you have to love everybody you have to listen to everybod..

It's 1950 and when Laura and Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seve..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

It's June 1897 and Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond ..

It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance. Billy's tenement home..

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

Richard Littlejohn was born in Ilford Essex in 1954. It wasn't just another century it was another c..

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career. By 19..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

“So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell Stalin’s had it now!” were the withering words of t..

At the age of 21 Monica Baldwin - the niece of Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the most strictly en..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..

Rick Stein's childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictab..

He is a sergeant-major in the SAS. His task is to snatch a defecting Russian star-wars scientist fro..