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

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

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

In 1975 a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret ..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..

Catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mos..

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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual particularly for a man who was destine..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

Written with her daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones this is a life-affirming account of the time Vera Lyn..

In February 1918 as the First World War was still being bitterly fought Lady Northcliffe appealed to..

When fresh-faced newly qualified vet Anna arrives in the seemingly sleepy Dorset village of Ebbourne..