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

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

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

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

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

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

Rose Jolliffe is an idealistic young woman living on a farm with her family in Saskatchewan. After C..

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

Every family has their signature bakes. The rich fruit cake that your Nan makes at Christmas. Your M..

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

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

Andrey Kurkov's war diaries continue - a searing deeply human portrait of a nation reshaped by war. ..

Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of pape..

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous es..

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