Paul Hollywood is the man of the moment in British baking. His luxurious dough recipes have been sin..

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Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an ..

It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

Tommy Hopkins' early years aren't very promising. Born at the end of the 19th century in a slum dist..

On 3 May 1961 after a trial conducted largely in secret a man named George Blake was sentenced to an..

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 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..

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..