Russia is a country of cultural refinement; yet a country that rules by ‘the iron fist’, with an ingrained readiness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause. In this riveting...

Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she ‘the people’s princess’, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative,...

Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, Dava Sobel has written a biography of ‘the father of modern physics’. In doing so, Sobel also presents a stunning portrait of a woman, described by...

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic...

'The Bedford Boys' is the astonishing true story of twenty-one young men who were killed during the first horrifying minutes of D-Day and the friends and families they left behind in the small...

The night of 16 May 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission:...

Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his ‘prose-tales’ – often horror melodramas such as ‘The Fall...

'Rough Crossings' is the astonishing story of the struggle for freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of...

Accompanying the major BBC TV series, 'A History of Modern Britain' confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions, and rival...

Everyone thinks they know about the Princes in the Tower: it’s one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in British history. But the real story of the suspicious deaths of the young Edward V...