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

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

The Bront? sisters' first poetry collection has just been published when Anne receives a letter from..

London 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National..

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

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

Bombay 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective Persis Wad..

Summer 1948. London swelters amid post-war reconstruction while continued rationing and the black-ma..