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Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness ..

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

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A dazzling portrait of Zweig and Roth, and a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordin..

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The railway system during World War 2 was the lifeline of the nation replacing road transport and me..

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

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

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

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

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

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

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

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

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Dick van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and belove..

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

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In 20 meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of trade i..

Written nearly 50 years ago Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook conjures up a time when addressing..

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Whether orienteering, building dens or making a house for a hedgehog, this guide is the ideal way fo..

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

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

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

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

This is the story of the last acrimonious days of The Beatles a final chapter reconstructing for the..

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April Captain Tom Moore 99-year-old Second World War..

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

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Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

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

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

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

Every day Dr Rachel Clarke tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives...

Dublin November 1856. George Little the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus is found de..

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

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

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

In his 26 years in the field Dr Richard Taylor has worked on well over 100 murder cases. Taylor draw..

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

On 11th November 1920 huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior..

Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington could easily have..

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

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

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

Sally Urwin and her husband Steve own High House Farm in Northumberland which they share with Mavis ..

At 75 Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing including starting a..

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

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

In Tudor England Mary Queen of Scots was under house arrest and her letters were censored so she sew..

His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autob..

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