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

Featuring multiple voices sound effects and music The Escape to Cabo is a based-on-a-true-story emot..

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

Renowned cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall IV was a Christian who kept his faith and his profession..

Throughout the twentieth century the seaside service posters of Britain's railways promised fresh ai..

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau in 1909 women have worked at the heart of British s..

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..