The festive season is fast approaching. Jane Austen fears that without her siblings at home there wo..

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

Spring 1934. Elena Standish a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence is visit..

The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most assume 17-year-..

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

December 1935. Director Monty Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on i..

Summer 1840. Edgar Allan Poe arrives in London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin in the hope that ..

Philadelphia 1844. As violent tensions escalate between 'nativists' and recent Irish immigrants Edga..

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

Yorkshire 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the p..

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

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

September 1940. The sun is shining and in the midst of the good weather Londoners could be mistaken ..

Bombay 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade Inspector Persis Wadia stands..

Christmas Eve 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered for another legendary cel..