Blogs in May 2020

Plague 28th May 2020

There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...

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A Place of Execution 27th May 2020

In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when...

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BONES IN THE RIVER 26th May 2020

The traditional Appleby Horse Fair hosts the largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe. The sudden influx of more than 40,000 visitors into the small Lakeland town has always caused its share of problems, with strained relations between...

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Five Hundred Miles From You 26th May 2020

Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she’s been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives...

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The Pyramid 24th May 2020

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where...

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