July 1794 and the streets of London are filled with rumours of revolution. Laurence Jago - clerk to ..

December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning l..

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

September 1940. The height of the Blitz. When The Savoy advertises its series of underground shelter..

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It is 1910 and a warehouse fire on the banks of the Thames has left one criminal dead and another ch..

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

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

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

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

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