Johnny Johnson is 92 years old and one of very few men who can recall first-hand the most daring and..

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

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In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

In 1914 the world changed forever when World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to f..

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

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

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..