In A Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons Julian Norton the star of Channel 5’s A Yorkshire Vet recou..

We take summer holidays for granted but back in the 1940s war had gripped Britain. Bombs fell beache..

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

Setting out for a family day in Devon nine-year-old Keira Ball suffered catastrophic brain injuries ..

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

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Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an origi..

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

On June 22 1954 in the depth of a southern winter teenage friends Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker we..

In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

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

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This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive quriky beautiful and sometimes baff..

For two decades Robert Stone made his living on the high seas as a diver fisherman treasure-hunter -..

Just before Christmas 1908 wealthy 82-year-old spinster Marion Gilchrist was found bludgeoned to dea..

What's the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever ..

When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..

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

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

Once upon a time a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival p..

You Never Know is former WAAF officer and bestselling novelist Claire Lorrimer's autobiography conta..

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

The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened beyo..

Dublin November 1856. George Little the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus is found de..

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

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

For 16-year-old Joyce the college building where she was about to enter represented privilege wealth..

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

At the age of twenty-eight Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal ..

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys two princes walking b..

Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women showcasing ..

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

Consisting of articles taken from his popular column in The Yorkshire Post Julian Norton's The Diary..

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April Captain Tom Moore 99-year-old Second World War..

On Saturday 15th April 1989 Jenni Hicks her husband Trevor and their two daughters Sarah and Vicki w..

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..

At 12.16am on Wednesday June 5 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the s..

Asteroids killer sharks nuclear bombs viruses deadly robots climate change the apocalypse - why is H..

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

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

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

From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso owls have captivated and inspi..

Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

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

For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon following track..

Crime fiction is the single most popular genre in international publishing and Australia has some of..

After World War II Sydney experienced a chillingly calculated crime wave thanks to discontent mixed ..

It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994 where five members of a..

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

For nearly three decades Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology servi..

Described by the author as simply “a work of love” Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling an..

In 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide Australia. Well-dressed and unmarked he h..