December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside an excursion train comes ..

London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..

Nicolas Picard is riding home from Exeter when he's attacked by a snarling wildcat. Yet when the bod..

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

London 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National..

December 1935. Director Monty Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on i..

1939. World War II is looming Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocr..

Hugh d’Avranches Earl of Chester is enraged when his hawk is killed by an arrow in the Forest of D..

Spring 1312. Edward II of England is absorbed with his favourite Peter Gaveston while his wife Isabe..

Mary Dutton is accused of killing her husband by poison. The police see it as an open-and-shut case ..

A woman’s dismembered corpse is discovered in a quarry and police quickly link the victim back to ..

Ireland AD 670. When an eminent scholar is found murdered in his cell in the abbey of Lios Mór fear..

On this day of ill omen plague makes its entrance. Within weeks swathes of England will be darkened ..

Ireland. AD 672. When news reaches Colgú King of Muman that his betrothed Princess Gelgéis has dis..

York railway station December 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlo..