Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

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

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

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

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

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician ..

Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..

The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the rai..

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

On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

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

At the age of 21 Monica Baldwin - the niece of Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the most strictly en..