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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

While their husbands brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers sisters and friends..

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

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

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

September 1939. For years now Britain has been rudderless divided and grievously unequal. When war b..

The women imprisoned in Holloway have come from all corners of the UK - whether a patriot from Scotl..