One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claime..

October 1604. Plague has hit London and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth'..

1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. But for Nell Lewis helping prisoners is somet..

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

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

Derbyshire 1921. When an MP goes missing in a Derbyshire village Scotland Yard detective Albert Linc..

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

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

Bombay 1950. For over a century one of the world's great treasures a 600-hundred-year-old copy of Da..

August 1940. On the streets of London locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes pla..

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

1931. Frances Palmer is overjoyed when her brother Rob returns to Adelaide as a racecourse veterinar..