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

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

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

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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