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A cream paper fairy fixed by a visible red hatpin looms beside a period camera and dark stream, an editorial interpretation of the admitted cutout method rather than a living fairy.

Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies

Two Yorkshire cousins photographed paper fairies, drawing Arthur Conan Doyle into a public campaign that outlived their joke and ended in conflicting admissions.

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Editorial reconstruction of Robert Kennedy wounded on the Ambassador Hotel pantry floor, supported by a hotel worker representing Juan Romero, in navy, ochre, cream and brick-red print colours, not an archival photograph.

Case file 024Power & Secrets

Who Really Shot Bobby Kennedy?

Robert Kennedy was shot after a California election victory, leaving a convicted gunman and enduring disputes about what happened in the hotel pantry.

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Dramatic editorial reconstruction of an anonymous early Stuart conspirator holding an iron lantern among wooden powder barrels beneath heavy beams, representing Fawkes at Westminster rather than an authentic likeness.

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Guy Fawkes - the Fall Guy?

A warning letter exposed a plan to kill James I and Parliament, but did the government know more than it admitted?

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Symbolic pulp illustration of a dead rabbit specimen on red cloth between looming Georgian doctors, with a small seated woman in a doorway, representing the established Mary Toft hoax.

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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Close geometric editorial interpretation of Hindenburg descending tail-first at Lakehurst amid flames and smoke, with tiny ground figures; no proposed ignition source is depicted.

Case file 016Forgotten Histories

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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