Case file 023Power & Secrets
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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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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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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Case file 010Culture & Legends
The Play That Fooled London
A young clerk produced Shakespeare’s lost papers and an unknown play, until a disastrous London performance exposed the fiction behind a celebrated discovery.
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