In 1360 the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. As arguments rage over raising the..

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

Paris 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand a prominent Fr..

Welcome to Hampshire 1795 where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage propos..

Birmingham 1933. Private enquiry agent William Garrett a man damaged by a dark childhood spent on Bi..

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

It is 1940 and as the Battle of Britain takes to the air Hope Stapleford is recruited to join the Sp..

December 1940. With the Luftwaffe pounding the city nightly Londoners seek refuge in underground sta..

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

Who saw him die? I said the fly with my little eye. I saw him die. An astonishingly beautiful settin..

An Old Etonian chum begs Blotto to join him on a cricket tour of India. But they still need a twelft..

London 1921. The Great War has recently ended and tensions in England are high. Now prominent Cabine..

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

Bombay 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun ..

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