Famous for his portrayal of the iconic hardman Grant Mitchell and as the maker of various documentar..

''Born and brought up in Suffolk Ronald Blythe produced an instant classic with Akenfield. Only a ma..

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

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..

The Second World War is dominated by heroic tales of men defending their country against a formidabl..

When Helen Batten’s marriage breaks down she starts on a journey of discovery into her family’s ..

All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the danger..

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

Emily Soldene's life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading lady and a formidable impresa..

They are the Pessarane Behesht. Sons of heaven. Spawned in war-torn Beirut. Nurtured in revolutionar..

Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a..

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

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission deep behind ene..