Discover the pivotal moments in the history of North East England, from Celtic struggles to the rise of Christianity in ...

At this point, when Harald had made real headway, he was invited to Christmas at Tofte farm. At the feast on Christmas Eve, a ...

‘No one can know all she had to go through. The merciful judgement of all connected with that terrible life lies with God; And we may all be thankful that it does.’ Doomed survivor of a family of ...

Only six men can lay claim to wearing the famous Savile Row tuxedo of James Bond; more people have stepped on the moon. Yet, hundreds more came within an inch of winning the coveted 007 role – the ...

Sir Alan Cobham is regarded by many as the visionary who made the largest individual contribution to the cause of British civil aviation. Graduating from early joy-riding operations he became Geoffrey ...

This nostalgic, humorous and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain’s cities ...

Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a ...

MARNIE PALMER now lives near Bath with her new partner, John, and their two Jack Russell terriers. Her former five-star jetset lifestyle has been replaced by a retirement of gardening and fly-fishing.

‘One notices how people are gripped by the past … remembering the past … feeding on the past.’ ‘Brian Walker challenges embedded myths and perceptions, peels away the real from the imagined, presents ...

When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain’s first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they were written, they posed a bit of a mystery. The ...

One American's Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State ...

COLM WALLACE is passionate about Irish history. He has a first-class honours masters in History and has written and edited several books, including The Little History of Galway for The History Press.