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

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

It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But h..

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

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

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

When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..

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

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

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

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

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

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

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