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The Women Who Ruled the East End: Remarkable Tales of Wartime London
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May 18, 2024 |
85 years on from the end of the Spanish Civil War, author Maggie Brookes uncovers its hidden heroes. Plus the extraordinary war story she found in a lift!
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May 11, 2024 |
99-year-old Holocaust survivor and US Army veteran George Leitmann on the emotional search for his father, the day he discovered a concentration camp and how he kept his cool interrogating Nazi war criminals.
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May 04, 2024 |
Sent away by sea: the forgotten history of WWII’s ‘seaevacuees'. Meet the heroine at the heart of an astonishing survival story.
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Apr 27, 2024 |
Meet the Sugar Girls of Love Lane. New social history book set in Tate & Lyle's Liverpool factory in the sixties offers a glimpse of a long vanished era.
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Meet the wartime librarians of Occupied Paris. Bestselling author of The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles, on how reading gives us a privacy of the mind
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Apr 20, 2024 |
112 years ago today, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. Historian Claes-Göran Wetterholm reveals some heartbreaking, untold personal stories…
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Apr 13, 2024 |
Meet the French librarian who trained as a Board Game Librarian and revolutionised her library in lockdown!
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Meet the librarians who rescued the books the Nazis burnt and plundered
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Mar 23, 2024 |
Rounding up randy runaway sheep and delivering twin lambs whilst making gravy. Welcome to the multitasking world of the Devon Shepherdess.
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Mar 16, 2024 |
Travel back to Victorian Brighton and discover a shadowy world of erotic tableaux, gangsters and music-hall artistes in Jacquie Bloese's atmospheric new novel
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Mar 09, 2024 |
Channel Islands under Occupation. From the library to the post office, Jersey is an island simmering with stories and secrets
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Feb 17, 2024 |
Famine. Revolution. Rebellion. A history of Paris, seen through the windows of a tiny Montmartre bakery
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Feb 10, 2024 |
School librarian by day, novelist by night. Meet the author who threw herself from an aeroplane in the name of research.
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Feb 03, 2024 |
The French resistance heroine who stole my heart. An exclusive glimpse into the research and writing of best-selling historical fiction author Natasha Lester.
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Jan 30, 2024 |
'I married the soldier who helped liberate me from Bergen-Belsen' On Holocaust Memorial Day, survivor Renee Salt shares her astonishing story.
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Jan 27, 2024 |
Spies, espionage and secrets in an antiquarian bookshop. Author Louise Fein shares the true story behind her propulsive new novel, The London Bookshop Affair,
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Jan 20, 2024 |
What happened to the children stolen by the Nazis? USA Today bestselling author Andie Newton shares a heartbreaking wartime story.
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Jan 13, 2024 |
Britain's best-loved saga writer Nancy Revell on how Gone with the Wind changed her life and the secrets to writing books that readers take to their hearts.
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Come inside one of London’s dreamiest churches, the famous St Bride's on Fleet Street and hear how a Blitz raid revealed a secret charnel house and the ruins of Roman pavement, plus it’s surprising link to Jack the Ripper.
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Dec 23, 2023 |
Could you be living over a plague pit? Meet the cemetery and death historian who uncovered a plague pit under Argos. Sam Perrin hunts out London's forgotten graves and shares what the dead can teach us.
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Dec 16, 2023 |
On National Letter Writing Day, meet the woman who collects forgotten letters. " In attics, drawers and shoe boxes under beds there are hundreds of stories waiting to be told."
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Dec 07, 2023 |
'I sat on the train & wondered if i’d ever see my family again!’ On the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport scheme, which saved 10,000 children from the Nazis, 97-year-old Gabriele Keenaghan shares her astonishing story
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Dec 02, 2023 |
Meet the Guinea Pig Club. The astonishing story of the Allied Airmen who formed WW2’s most unique club. A tale of unsung heroines, pioneering surgery and sex in the linen cupboard!
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Nov 24, 2023 |
Who was the real Ronnie Biggs? Sixty years on from the Great Train Robbery, his biographer and friend gives us a glimpse into his colourful and audacious life.
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Nov 18, 2023 |
Confessions of a ghost-writer. Meet the bestselling writer you've never heard of as she reveals publishing's best-kept secret.
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Nov 11, 2023 |
A deathbed plea from my mother – ‘I don’t want to be forgotten’.
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Nov 03, 2023 |
Vanishing Voices of Wartime London. Meet the proud cockneys who survived being blown up, machine-gunned and being buried alive!
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Oct 21, 2023 |
I was born in a Nazi concentration camp
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Discover the hidden history of an underground village in East London. Join Siddy Holloway, presenter of Secrets of the Underground and wartime Blitz survivor Ray as we celebrate a unique wartime community.
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Libraries Week - Saturday. The surprising history of libraries in wartime. Bodice-rippers in the blackout, steamy shelter novels and how wartime women changed the way we read today.
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Oct 07, 2023 |
Libraries Week - Friday. Meet the librarian documenting the weird and wonderful things she finds left behind in library books! "Each item is an anonymous glimpse into someone’s life"
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Libraries Week - Thursday. It's National Poetry Day. Karen Smith of the National Poetry Library opens the doors to her magical library
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Oct 05, 2023 |
Libraries Week - Wednesday. Powerful. Seditious. Pioneering. Meet the librarian breaking the rules.
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Libraries Week - Tuesday. What's it like to be a librarian in the Outer Hebrides?
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Oct 03, 2023 |
Libraries Week - Monday. Meet the husband and wife librarian team smashing the sssh stereotype.
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Oct 02, 2023 |
How to write under three pen names, by author Becca Mascull
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Oct 01, 2023 |
Underground libraries and clandestine book clubs! New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin, gets up close to history and tells us why she keeps a magnifying glass in her desk drawer.
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Sep 29, 2023 |
Author of The Midwife of Auschwitz, Anna Stuart on uncovering the torment of the Abba star with the Nazi father and the courageous midwife who delivered 3000 babies in Auschwitz.
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Author Gill Paul uncovers a ruthless rivalry, scandal and the great clash of the beauty titans!
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Sep 22, 2023 |
Tattooist of Auschwitz author Heather Morris on how she unlocked a decades old secret
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Sep 17, 2023 |
100-year-old Bletchley Park Codebreaker, Charlotte 'Betty' Webb on keeping her wartime secrets
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Sep 17, 2023 |
Bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri on learning to write what she feels, the power of storytelling and how happiness is found in a Greek deli on the Piccadilly Line.
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Aug 20, 2023 |