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Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..

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

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

Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

Setting out for a family day in Devon nine-year-old Keira Ball suffered catastrophic brain injuries ..

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

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

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

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

A joint operation between Britain and France the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain ter..

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

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

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

We all want to be successful in life and to be remembered for our achievements - but how can we do ..

Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? The human body is extraordinary and fascinat..

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

Bustling with rich detail historical vignettes and surprising wares this is the story of Britain's b..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

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

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

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In this follow-up to the bestselling CLANLANDS Sam and Graham document their journey across New Zeal..

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

Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..

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

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

Asteroids killer sharks nuclear bombs viruses deadly robots climate change the apocalypse - why is H..

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

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

In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House an elegant mansion wit..

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

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

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

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

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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..

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

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

Can we resurrect dinosaurs Jurassic Park-style? Are we living in The Matrix's digital simulation? Do..

Crime fiction is the single most popular genre in international publishing and Australia has some of..

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

Happily married and running a successful business Peter Berry's life changed when at the age of 50 h..