Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stre..

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife when c..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

Ignited by a lightning strike in a remote forest the Currowan fire was one of the most terrifying ep..

Anthropophagy - humans eating their fellow-humans - creates a curious blend of revulsion and fascina..

On the 18th of June 1994 weeks before the end of the massacres in which hundreds of thousands of her..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

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

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

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

When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has..

The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of 15 women who were all selected to work in Britain's..

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

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

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