Author: Mike Hutton

What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies abo...

As international star Gloria Bird and leading British artist Alex Beck meet for the last time their intense and volatile relationship has spanned s...

The most momentous decade in Londons colourful history was one of huge contrasts. The war provided a heady brew of fear, bravery, stoicism, cowardi...

After the trauma of the Blitz and wartime restrictions, London embraced the arrival of a new decade. Austerity was slow to loosen its grip, but the...

The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of enormous challenges ...