On 3 May 1961 after a trial conducted largely in secret a man named George Blake was sentenced to an..

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In 1940 Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one the nations of Europe had fallen and ..

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an ..

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When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

The railway system during World War 2 was the lifeline of the nation replacing road transport and me..

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landsca..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

When fresh-faced newly qualified vet Anna arrives in the seemingly sleepy Dorset village of Ebbourne..

Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed. On 1 Au..