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Only a generation or two ago illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a..

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Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

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

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

Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..

In 2010 Alison Hitchcock made an unusual offer to an acquaintance Brian Greenley who had been diagno..

Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much do..

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In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House an elegant mansion wit..

Consisting of articles taken from his popular column in The Yorkshire Post Julian Norton's The Diary..

The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the h..

In 1935 Evelyn Shillington started a diary little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover. Eve j..

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

'This is not quite a memoir. Rather it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself this p..

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Moreish digs into the unseen triggers secret influences and mysterious motivations hovering above th..

On the Slow Train is an unashamed tug at the heartstrings harking back to a time before Dr Beeching ..

Bustling with rich detail historical vignettes and surprising wares this is the story of Britain's b..

On Saturday 15th April 1989 Jenni Hicks her husband Trevor and their two daughters Sarah and Vicki w..

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

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

You Never Know is former WAAF officer and bestselling novelist Claire Lorrimer's autobiography conta..

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

Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

Acclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As hi..

The women imprisoned in Holloway have come from all corners of the UK - whether a patriot from Scotl..

January 1953. Eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history the Cold War enters..

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

Over the centuries army wives have followed their men to the front helped keep order in far-flung pa..

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

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

Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? The human body is extraordinary and fascinat..

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

The crime the criminals the victims and their families. And the biggest manhunt by British police.....

In The Pattern in the Carpet Margaret Drabble tells the history of the jigsaw a uniquely British for..

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

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

In January 1964 a team of tiny red and white Mini Coopers stunned the world by winning the legendary..

We take summer holidays for granted but back in the 1940s war had gripped Britain. Bombs fell beache..

In his 26 years in the field Dr Richard Taylor has worked on well over 100 murder cases. Taylor draw..

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

Bombs were falling all over Britain. . .For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapto..

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

In 2004 the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was R..

Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April Captain Tom Moore 99-year-old Second World War..

Judge not lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church fostering a certain..

G. Kelly's pie and mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for nearly a hundre..

For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon following track..

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

From royal expert and royal butler Grant Harrold comes an unforgettable memoir and portrait of a roy..

Asteroids killer sharks nuclear bombs viruses deadly robots climate change the apocalypse - why is H..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has..

Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an origi..

In a small market town in the northeast of England in 1825 something momentous happened: ticket-bear..

Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing ..

In The Genius of Birds acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance o..

Happily married and running a successful business Peter Berry's life changed when at the age of 50 h..

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

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

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

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

Every day Dr Rachel Clarke tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives...

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

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain ..

Depressed and suicidal Helen was admitted to a psychiatric ward and sectioned under the Mental Healt..

In A Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons Julian Norton the star of Channel 5’s A Yorkshire Vet recou..

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

Throughout the twentieth century the seaside service posters of Britain's railways promised fresh ai..

This is the account of a unique journey - a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of ..

When cash-strapped single mum Callie visits the beautiful Cotswold village of Rowan Vale on a school..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

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

'I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this ..

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

Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks Tom Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. Fro..

Robert arrives in Colombia with a surprise for his wife Rosemary: Tara a Jack Russell puppy. Join th..

Described by the author as simply “a work of love” Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling an..

In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..

Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first ..

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