Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

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

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

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In The Pattern in the Carpet Margaret Drabble tells the history of the jigsaw a uniquely British for..

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This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive quriky beautiful and sometimes baff..

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

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

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

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

Tired of endless tarmac and keen to see more on his travels than the tail-lights of the car in front..

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

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However Quicksand is not a book about death and de..