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

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

September 1939. For years now Britain has been rudderless divided and grievously unequal. When war b..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau in 1909 women have worked at the heart of British s..

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 ..

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