Case file 027Forgotten Histories
Scripture Cast in Lead
Metal books unearthed outside Granada promised an ancient revelation, drawing a threatened minority, an ambitious archbishop and Rome into a struggle over Spain’s past.
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Forgotten Histories
Overlooked events, extraordinary lives and strange episodes recovered from the historical record.
Case file 021Forgotten Histories
A Wonder from Godalming
A Surrey woman’s supposed rabbit births drew royal doctors into a medical scandal, leaving disputed accounts of deception, suffering and control over her body.
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Last Landing at Lakehurst
Hindenburg burned before the cameras at Lakehurst, leaving investigators to separate an electrical accident from sabotage claims and a dispute about its skin.
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Brotherhood of the Eye
A coded German manuscript revealed the Oculists’ initiation rites, secret signals and campaign to expose the Freemasons who shared their world.
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Case file 011Forgotten Histories
The Stone That Wouldn’t Sink
Six sailors died bringing Cleopatra’s Needle to London; the obelisk survived abandonment at sea, but was its notorious voyage cursed or dangerously mismanaged?
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