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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Entering her thirties Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and temporary a..

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

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..

Robert arrives in Colombia with a surprise for his wife Rosemary: Tara a Jack Russell puppy. Join th..

Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

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

Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing ..

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

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

Sally Urwin and her husband Steve own High House Farm in Northumberland which they share with Mavis ..

Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an origi..

Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created..

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

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

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

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

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

The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires i..

In Night Trains Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains..

Every day Dr Rachel Clarke tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives...

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

Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house like many others in Victorian London. But be..

The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened beyo..

Can we resurrect dinosaurs Jurassic Park-style? Are we living in The Matrix's digital simulation? Do..

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

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

Kim Philby the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring was the Cold War's most infamous traito..

King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..

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

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

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

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

The crime the criminals the victims and their families. And the biggest manhunt by British police.....

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

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

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April Captain Tom Moore 99-year-old Second World War..

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

Drawing on brand new interviews with astronauts and engineers archive material and newly declassifie..

Asteroids killer sharks nuclear bombs viruses deadly robots climate change the apocalypse - why is H..

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

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

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

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation..

For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those y..

Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a Welsh mining village. At 16 she went to ..

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

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

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

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

Just before Christmas 1908 wealthy 82-year-old spinster Marion Gilchrist was found bludgeoned to dea..

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

Love duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War. Christian Lamb is one of th..

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

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

In his 26 years in the field Dr Richard Taylor has worked on well over 100 murder cases. Taylor draw..

In this colourful history of the wild world of crime reporting since 1700 Duncan Campbell reveals wh..

Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of inte..

Described by the author as simply “a work of love” Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling an..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For two decades Robert Stone made his living on the high seas as a diver fisherman treasure-hunter -..

After World War II Sydney experienced a chillingly calculated crime wave thanks to discontent mixed ..

This is the account of a unique journey - a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of ..

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

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