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

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London 1934. Doreen Bates is working in the same office as E an older married man. They strike up a ..

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

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

King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..

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

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

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

A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Bri..

For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those y..

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth famil..

Bombs were falling all over Britain. . .For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapto..

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

Brought to you by Penguin. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices this groundbre..