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Maureen Reynolds was born and brought up in Dundee a city with no shortage of intriguing characters ..

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

In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

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

Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But h..

Brenda Ashford is 91 years old and spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny.Brenda began training a..

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..

When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..

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

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash an American flier who after being shot do..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..