Where Boris Becker’s child was conceived?

Why Charles Parnell was really sued for divorce, a disaster for Ireland?

What Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton have in common?

Why Attila the Hun should have waited for his up-market Roman bride?

Just how Nick Leeson lost £800 million by mistake?

How the Hunt brothers bankrupted themselves over silver?

How Nelson’s coat sealed his fate?

How code-breaking doomed the Germans and Japanese?

How a witty one-liner wrecked ‘Beau’ Brummell?

How Bill Gates became really rich and his flying friend did not?

How a wrong turn caused World War I?

How the ‘War of the Worlds’ caused America to panic?

How the Eiffel Tower was ‘sold’ for scrap, twice in a month?

How Britain kept giving away its aviation industry?

How the State of Israel was inadvertently created by the ‘conker’?

How a tulip in Holland could once have been exchanged for a large house?

How the British car industry casually turned down owning Volkswagen?