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

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

In 20 meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of trade i..

In Tudor England Mary Queen of Scots was under house arrest and her letters were censored so she sew..

In each chapter of How to Survive History Cody Cassidy explores how to survive one of history's grea..

From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain ..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth famil..