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

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

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

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

On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

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

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

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

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

To many Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique portrayed as an ageing stiff widow. ..

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

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

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

It's June 1897 and Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond ..