It is the juiciest piece of gossip the citizens of Norwich have heard for a long time. The ruthless ..

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

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

Nicolas Picard is riding home from Exeter when he's attacked by a snarling wildcat. Yet when the bod..

1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph his body left to rot by the ro..

London 1556. Hal Westmecott one of the city's most feared executioners reckons Jack Blackjack owes h..

It's former lady's maid Louisa Cannon's wedding day but the fantasy is shattered shortly after when ..

1862. A goods train is speeding through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep i..

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

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

1939. World War II is looming Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocr..

1939. War has been declared and spymaster Fitzroy wastes no time in preparing his goddaughter Hope f..

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

Berlin December 1939. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plu..

When a heart attack forces Marcus fford Croft to retire from his chambers his daughter Miriam and so..