Glasgow 1898. A man is found stabbed to death in a tenement block. Juan Camerón photographer-cum-sl..

November 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examin..

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

Christmas 1846 and Haworth is in the grip of a freezing winter. Charlotte Emily and Anne Brontë are..

October 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a l..

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

It’s festival time in Athens and Philocles is looking forward to the holiday. Visitors are coming ..

1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele attracting the cream of ..

1894. Mr Simeon Crosby a retired executioner comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk..

Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth happen upon a road accident where the driver Bernard Potter ..

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

On their return home from their pilgrimage Baldwin and Simon's ship is attacked off the coast of the..

After their gruelling journeys to Galicia and Scilly Baldwin and Simon are at last back on the Engli..

London 1929. In the darkness before dawn a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unload..

London 1818. MP Sir Roger Mellanby attends a performance of Macbeth at Covent Garden featuring Hanna..