1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. These impass..

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first..

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys two princes walking b..

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

Doctors nurses medics and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of pape..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

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

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain ..

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

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA story at once extremely strange and en..

Picking up from where his first memoir left off Dr Tom is back with more of his gloriously eccentric..

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

Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies packed his notepad and set off in search of B..