A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village replete with Tudor houses and quaint cott..

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

1866. On a dark brooding summer's evening Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compart..

January 1950. Lady Anne Coke daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester is called home after a sudden dea..

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

Upstairs Madam is planning the party of the season. Downstairs the servants are plotting the heist o..

1937. War with Germany is dawning and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political li..

1928. After the death of a maid at a glamorous society party fortune heir Bryan Guinness seizes life..

1936. Devastated by the death of her brother Hugh Emma seeks to keep his memory alive by embracing h..

It's 1941 and the Mitford household is splintered by the vicissitudes of war. To bring the clan toge..

1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where 16-year-old Wilf is working f..

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

Bombay 1950. James Whitby sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit Indi..

Yorkshire 1930. Kate Shackleton arrives at the garden party with her niece Harriet to celebrate the ..

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