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

It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London branding roses on his victims. The police ha..

Paris 1750. A new maid arrives at the home of a celebrated clockmaker and his clever unworldly daugh..

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

The Brontë sisters' first poetry collection has just been published when Anne receives a letter fro..

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

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

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

Armistice Day 1940. The Blitz Detective John Jago finds himself despatched to Pimlico to investigate..

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

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

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

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

October 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a l..

November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the..