As the effects of the war raging in Europe begin to be felt at home in London Monica Dickens decides..

Called up in 1940 Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead he found himself caught up in the fal..

Pearly Kings and Queens are one of the quintessential icons of “old London” originally invented ..

“Running Casualty is really very simple: you have to love everybody you have to listen to everybod..

It's 1950 and when Laura and Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seve..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

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

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

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

Richard Littlejohn was born in Ilford Essex in 1954. It wasn't just another century it was another c..

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career. By 19..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

“So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell Stalin’s had it now!” were the withering words of t..

The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash an American flier who after being shot do..

In the upper reaches of the Loire lies the secluded village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Their whole vi..