1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor of France his ultimate aim: to rule Europe. After defeat at the ..

Wrongly disgraced and her career left in tatters palaeontologist Darcy Manning embarks on a mission ..

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

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

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

Angie 27 has never left her small outback mining town of Coober Pedy and longs to explore the world...

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'Owing to frequent acquaintance with peril I had become unusually hardened for a woman.' Mrs Paschal..

On a sultry afternoon in July a man stumbles through thick foliage making for the coast. He wears pr..

On a foggy night in Hampstead London a party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the warti..

After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s many railways were 'rationalised' and gradually shut down. Rura..

Abandoned at Chipchase's Travelling Circus as a baby Louie dreams of becoming a 'Showstopper' a tigh..

Agatha Christie in London to visit her agent boards a train preoccupied in the knowledge that her hu..

Charlotte had a plan. The perfect country wedding followed by a month-long honeymoon in Japan - but ..

London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..