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

Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1852, is better known as the Elephant Man. Thr..

This book contains all manner of grim and ancient punishments from London's long and bloody history...

Steve Halliwell is best known as the loveable patriarch Zak Dingle in television's Emmerdale, a part..

As the Great Western Railway grew, it absorbed a huge number of railway companies, the astonishing f..

Why was the Allied naval assault of February/March 1915 so unsuccessful? Did the Ottoman Turks have ..

The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra t..

Eliza Acton is the forgotten hero of our culinary past. A debt of gratitude to her is what Delia Smi..

Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother (the mother of Randolph) has been a background figure i..

This book presents a delightful history of how Christmas has been celebrated in Britain over the pas..

This heart-warming account of veterinary life traces Ivor Smith's early days as a student at univers..

Was Winston Churchill fit to rule? Why was Marie Antoinette's wedding night a let down? What really ..

Throughout his distinguished career, Patrick Moore has, without a doubt, done more to raise the prof..

The Auxiliary Territorial Service was formed in 1938 as Britain faced the threat of war. This is the..

Getting married in the 1950s was quite a different experience to how it is today. After the independ..