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

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

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

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

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..

On the Slow Train is an unashamed tug at the heartstrings harking back to a time before Dr Beeching ..

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

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..

For a doctor in Intensive Care intense emotion is part of the job. Fear in the eyes of a terminally ..

At long last the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Brontë. They were from different lands differen..

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation..

Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing ..