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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

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

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begin to be felt at home in London Monica Dickens decides..

Steve Halliwell is best known as the loveable patriarch Zak Dingle in the hit TV show Emmerdale a pa..

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