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What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary says Dr Da..

In 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide Australia. Well-dressed and unmarked he h..

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

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On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

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In 1914 Vera Brittain was 18 and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four year..

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On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..

On Saturday 15th April 1989 Jenni Hicks her husband Trevor and their two daughters Sarah and Vicki w..

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In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

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It's hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. But when a stranger chall..

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From royal expert and royal butler Grant Harrold comes an unforgettable memoir and portrait of a roy..

Charlie Hedges is a pioneer in the field of missing persons over a career spanning nearly four decad..

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David Berridge returns with more stories from his time as a prison officer at HMP Parkhurst giving a..

Get up close to nature with naturalist and TV presenter CHRIS PACKHAM CBE and encounter the amazing ..

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

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

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

In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life from her childhood in Stamps Arkansas to her world travels as a be..

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It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994 where five members of a..

Katherine 'Kitty' Marshall was destined to break with convention. Brought up in a socially active fa..

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard ..

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

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

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