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September 1939. For years now Britain has been rudderless divided and grievously unequal. When war b..

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For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon following track..

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In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

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Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

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Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house like many others in Victorian London. But be..

This is the account of a unique journey - a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of ..

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Just before Christmas 1908 wealthy 82-year-old spinster Marion Gilchrist was found bludgeoned to dea..

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Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

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When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

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The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened beyo..

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