In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

Katherine 'Kitty' Marshall was destined to break with convention. Brought up in a socially active fa..

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The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about..

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During the third week of February 1944 the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever roun..

The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires i..

Feature films have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But the reality w..

How would it feel if all your sons and daughters were caught up in war? That was the heart-wrenching..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

In 1935 Evelyn Shillington started a diary little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover. Eve j..

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..

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

Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne's parents are lost at sea she is forced to leave her London home a..