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The GIs who swept a nation's women off their feet.

My friendship with a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor and the valuable lessons it has taught me.

Smutty dragons and raunchy cowboys...

The domestic violence post that went viral

How the world's first women's refuge saved Jenny's life...

Discover the secret library at the heart of one of WW2's great resistance stories.

The Books the Nazis banned

The Battle of Cable Street

Meet Sally, who wrote poetry in secret to escape the war.

Uncovering the secrets of a wartime tragedy

The heartbreaking secret stories behind Operation Pied Piper

The Librarian of Kabul

Meet the schoolboy gardeners of Russia Lane

How I discovered a forgotten wartime library...

Beauty was their duty

The Golden Age of Vintage Weddings

Meet 101-year-old Henry...

ONE HUNDRED LIBRARIES AND ME…

The magical story of Britain's only underground wartime library

On this day 108 years ago...

The surprising history of libraries in wartime.

"To die rich is to die disgraced" Exploring the life of library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie

Secrets of the Blitz...

VE Day Voices...

Holocaust survivor finds her father's grave after 80 years of searching.

Meet the oldest survivor of the Kindertransport.

An open letter to the book-thieves...

The Titanic's final secrets

80 years ago today...the liberation of Bergen-Belsen

The secret agony of Britain's most beloved children's author...

100-year-old Bletchley Park Codebreaker, Charlotte 'Betty' Webb on keeping her wartime secrets

‘Paris woke something in me that the Nazis nearly destroyed. Hope.'

East End mums of old...

Vanishing Voices of Wartime London.

Meet Beryl and Shirley...

Meet Minksy, wartime singer and seamstress...

Meet Renee and Kate

Meet Renee and Charles

Meet Kate. The forgotten victim of a wartime tragedy.

In Search of a Holocaust Survivor's Past

Celebrating Ten Years of Storytelling