Pearly Kings and Queens are one of the quintessential icons of “old London” originally invented ..

Lori Maddox chooses to spend the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds c..

It's June 1897 and Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond ..

Spring 1648. When Thomas Hill a bookseller living in rural Hampshire publishes a political pamphlet ..

Spring 1661. After years of civil war followed by Cromwell’s joyless rule England awaits the coron..

Poplar London 1920. Fourteen-year-old Victoria Keats is horrified when her father demands that she g..

Inspector Angel and his team are faced with a baffling case when a fruit gum found at a murder scene..

Liz MacMillan has wanted to be a nurse ever since her baby brother died of scarlet fever but her dom..

Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in th..

England 1315. Famine and unrest spread across the country and when Sir William Bradshaigh joins Adam..

Richard Littlejohn was born in Ilford Essex in 1954. It wasn't just another century it was another c..

Balmoral Castle 1905. For Rose McQuinn a handsome cottage on the Royal estate promises a summer holi..

1940 London. Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. ..

Eva Jackson is Rosemary’s cousin ('umpteen times removed') and she has moved back to her childhood..

It was a wild and passionate night - a night that drives beautiful Fenella to marry a stranger and b..