September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet..

September 1940. The sun is shining and in the midst of the good weather Londoners could be mistaken ..

Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its w..

Derbyshire 1921. When an MP goes missing in a Derbyshire village Scotland Yard detective Albert Linc..

Three powerful Norman lords and a Saxon thegn watch their horses competing in a race near Woodstock...

Adelaide 1931: Telephone switchboard operator Frances’ life is difficult as sole provider for her ..

As the winter of 1323 descends upon a windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor who could blame the y..

It’s a busy time of the year for Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth - there’s the Michaelma..

August 1940. On the streets of London locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes pla..

The small village of Maldon is controlled by the wealthy and rapacious FitzCorbucion family led by H..

Ralph Delchard a soldier who fought at the Battle of Hastings and Gervase Bret a talented lawyer hav..

Bombay 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective Persis Wad..

One night in the Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl...

1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole..

Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret are royal commissioners appointed to investigate irregularities that..