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The extent of his efforts has never been recognised (Image: Getty) Amid the deepening horror of March 1939, as Europe stood on the precipice of a Second World War, it was no wonder the arrival in Britain of 20 Jewish children by aeroplane from the Czech capital Prague should pass …

This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Moshe and his best friend Shani Itzcovitz 2020 (Image: Ad Lib) In January 1945, with the evacuation of the Auschwitz camps, several hundred children and adolescents aged six to sixteen arrived …

As 2024 dawns so do 13 years since George RR Martin published a book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Since A Dance with Dragons hit shelves in 2011, the Game of Thrones TV show has come and gone with the showrunners being forced to rely on …

This year James Bond fans celebrated the 70th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s original 007 novels.  Yet the author famously only wrote 12 novels and two collections of short stories about his MI6 spy. In the almost 60 years since his death, there have been over 50 post-Fleming Bond adventures aside …

Hatton Garden: Ring leader behind heist jailed for 10 years Journalists should probably always contact the police when seeking a criminal case update. Well, in most cases, perhaps. Let me explain. Over the years, my insider information about underworld bosses and absconding fugitives has earned me respect, possibly grudgingly, from …

The growing influence of the phrase is a tribute to the vivid imagination of Patrick Hamilton (Image: Getty) Gas has all but disappeared from our lives as a method of lighting. Yet this outmoded technology, long superseded by cleaner, safer electricity, has left one remarkable legacy. For in recent years …

Just when you’ve sorted your ‘gassed’ from ‘gaslighting’, along comes a new set of vocabulary to baffle. ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD reveals the new words from this year…

‘Dickens loved home, hearth and Christmas’ says Richard Armitage. (Image: Getty) Having played Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s smash-hit Hobbit trilogy with a powerful northern accent, it’s slightly surprising to hear Richard Armitage’s deep, rich baritone minus the strong inflections of the dwarf lord. But then, the Leicester-born star is …

As this fascinating book reveals, we don’t actually know the truth at all. Much of what we think we know is based on an authorised biography by John Forster published in 1871. Fair enough you might think but Forster was Dickens’s best mate and only “revealed” what Dickens wanted the …

A Letter which had been used to show that Admiral Lord Nelson backed the slave trade is a fake, according to the author of a new book. Chris Brett, chairman of the Nelson Society, argues it was the work of plantation owners. They were trying to piggyback on the reputation …