The plague has struck London once again but so has opportunity for theatre company Lord Westfield’..

November 1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of Penrose Llewellyn ..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

July 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College the school for e..

Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tr..

Winter 1644 the Tower of London. Colonel George Monck has been charged with high treason. A brillian..

The year is 1652. General George Monck has been through an awful lot since he sat as a prisoner in t..

1659. Lord General George Monck has set up camp on the Scottish border with his loyal army. He has p..

Anna Hopkins' daily walk through Oxford's Port Meadow is rudely interrupted one autumn morning when ..

Shortly before Christmas Professor James Lowell is found brutally attacked in his rooms at Walsingha..

When William the Conqueror wished to reward his armourer he made him a grant of land - land worked b..

Kemp blamed himself: he should have kept more closely in touch with his younger sister. Now it appea..

Having grown up in an orphanage Kate Oakley is afraid of love and she always puts her job first. One..

May 1588. With Elizabeth I’s court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key un..

In June 1837 the 18-year-old Victoria wakes up to find that she is Queen of the most powerful nation..