Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...
A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...
Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...
By midday on February 15, large-scale fires had spread, killing thousands of people and almost completely reducing the Old ...