Having awoken at first light, Giancarlo had decided that he and his two sons would climb high into the Alps that day. What greater...

Jeanne was from Paris, and she had come to the Bordeaux, and more specifically to Saint-Emilion, to interview the wine-growers there. In...

I doubt you’d have heard of these two rival teams, but not to worry: I’ll tell you all you need to know. Andrew is captain of the Beans....

Today was a Sunday, and in the State Prison outside Denver, Colorado, the prisoners sat up on their beds, impatiently awaiting the...

Before the sun had risen over northern England, a man left his red-brick house just outside Newcastle and set out along the long dirt...

The colliers, as they liked to be called, dug coal all year long in the mines of Merseyside. Without them, the fine people of London...

Long ago, thousands of years before our time, there lived a people called the Israelites. They lived in harmony as a community, with...

For the two boys, and for their village, life was lived to the rhythm of the vineyards and the harvest. Each period brought its own joys,...

His pontificate began under the omen of war; at conclave, the Cardinals had expressed the desire for a pope who would be more diplomatic...

It was the twenty-fourth of December, yet even on Christmas Eve the miners remained in their holes beneath the earth, far from their...

In 1930s France, the movement to give women the vote was spreading like wildfire. By 1936, the country’s politicians were close to...

The Great War had been a chance for women to show they could be useful, that they deserved to work and be free. In England, the...

Dear Momma, I’ve been thinking about you. Pray for me, won’t you? I always used to think that you could read my thoughts...but even if...

It was the rainy season, and the air was heavy as a cape of lead. The American choppers soared over the jungle, and in one of them sat...

In Kaduna, northern Nigeria, the Nigerians waited on the runway for the arrival of their honoured visitors, grasping little flags in...

To the American marines, Vietnam was hell on earth. The country had been cloven in two at the outbreak of the war, split between the...

“It was the bloodiest war in our history, but the War of Secession put an end to slavery in the United States, restored the Union and...

“Come sit with me, John. I have a story to tell you…” said grandfather to grandson. “What’s it about?” asked John. “A long, long time...

This afternoon, John had spent hours reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. He turned the pages frantically,...

In Amsterdam the journalists had risen early this morning, and gathered en masse outside the Hilton hotel here in the Venice of the...