Joan clarke 1917–96

Jewish teenager who volunteered for the Dutch resistance ...

From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

CRACKED IT The graceful dancers of Matthew Bourne’s ...

The British cycling icon talks James Shrubsall through her astonishing journey, on and off the bike

Unusually, my story begins at the end with the perplexing death certificate of my great grandfather William Taylor. William died aged 71 in May 1938, in Gosport, Hampshire, and the death was registere

They’d have loved the drama of it – bowing out almost exactly ten years apart. Born in the same year and with the same initials, both queens of the bonkbuster. One was a Hollywood lioness, the other a