Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first ..

Feature films have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But the reality w..

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

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

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

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

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

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

The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires i..

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

It's 1963. The year of the Profumo scandal the Great Train Robbery the rise of teenage consumerism a..

In each chapter of How to Survive History Cody Cassidy explores how to survive one of history's grea..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous es..

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