In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House an elegant mansion wit..
In 1914 Vera Brittain was 18 and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four year..
Katherine 'Kitty' Marshall was destined to break with convention. Brought up in a socially active fa..
David Berridge returns with more stories from his time as a prison officer at HMP Parkhurst giving a..
Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..
'I was two when the woman I called Mummy told me 'You came out of another mummy's tummy.' I assumed ..
Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..
In this follow-up to the bestselling CLANLANDS Sam and Graham document their journey across New Zeal..
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..
In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..
Famous for his portrayal of the iconic hardman Grant Mitchell and as the maker of various documentar..
Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing ..
Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..
Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..