CoastingElise had a new job, flat and relationship and they were all making her utterly miserable. Then the obvious solution hit her: run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain. Over the next 301 days, she saw Britain at its most wild and wonderful, and discovered that running away doesn't solve your problems but it's more fun than dealing with them.

Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain

It is 1909 and this world stands on a precipice - some celebrate this constant whisper of skin to skin

Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City in the summer of 1940 with nothing but a sewing machine and a heretofore unindulged taste for adventure

a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow

For 30 years he has been performing stand-up

in 'The Fox' two women maintaining a farm feel the dark shadows of war

The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan

untranslated and unknown to the modern general reader

With his distinctive wit

William Henry Searle casts an eye back to episodes spent in close and tender relationships with members of his family

Rackham describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside

her coronation to her husband's death