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
Mary Toft’s supposed rabbit births fooled the king’s surgeons and made her a national joke, but the doctors wrote down far more than she ever got to say.
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Case file 016Forgotten Histories
Last Landing at Lakehurst
Filmed from the ground as it burned, Hindenburg left investigators arguing over sabotage, static and the fabric of its skin.
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Case file 014Forgotten Histories
Brotherhood of the Eye
Behind the Copiale cipher lay the Oculists, a secret society that staged eye operations on its recruits and set out to expose the Freemasons.
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Case file 011Forgotten Histories
The Stone That Wouldn’t Sink
Victorian engineers sealed an ancient obelisk inside an iron cylinder and towed it towards London, but was its disastrous voyage cursed or simply mismanaged?
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