Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..
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On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..
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When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..
When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..
Following Kate Marshall's first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital with each mo..
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In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..
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Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain ..
In 1972 sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Michelle Pearson gave up her son for adoption. Michelle was told..
Throughout the twentieth century the seaside service posters of Britain's railways promised fresh ai..
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It was said of the young Frank Sinatra that he came across as 'St Francis of Assisi with a shoulder ..
On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..
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A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Bri..