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

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

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..

For a young Mike Pannett growing up in North Yorkshire in the late 1960's and early '70's was a drea..

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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..

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

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

Johnny Johnson is 92 years old and one of very few men who can recall first-hand the most daring and..

It's 1950 and when Laura and Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seve..