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

It's hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. But when a stranger chall..

Kim Philby the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring was the Cold War's most infamous traito..

The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the h..

Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and..

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

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about..

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

Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a Welsh mining village. At 16 she went to ..

In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

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

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

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

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