At the age of 21 Monica Baldwin - the niece of Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the most strictly en..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

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

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..

Brenda Ashford is 91 years old and spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny.Brenda began training a..

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

Catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mos..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..

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

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

‘The best book about the Windsors for decades’ Petronella WyattThe intimate biography of one of ..

Matt Baker is happiest on the farm. Away from the bright lights of hosting our favourite television ..