Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a Welsh mining village. At 16 she went to ..
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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..
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..
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 ..
The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the h..
On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..
Bombs were falling all over Britain. . .For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapto..
King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..
Kim Philby the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring was the Cold War's most infamous traito..
Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..
Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..