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

Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

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

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

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

Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide campaign ..

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

Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..

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

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

No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home; y..

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

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

How would it feel if all your sons and daughters were caught up in war? That was the heart-wrenching..

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