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It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

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

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

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