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

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

The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the rai..

Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With..

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..

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In his 26 years in the field Dr Richard Taylor has worked on well over 100 murder cases. Taylor draw..

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

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

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

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

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

The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Sovie..

In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic to bag themselves husbands and titles...