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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..

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