Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his ‘prose-tales’ – often horror melodramas such as ‘The Fall...

London in the eighteenth-century is a city of extremes: squalor and superstition vie with elegance and enlightenment as the capital’s brilliant architect, Nicholas Dyer, is commissioned to build...

Poet, forger and genius, Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged eighteen. His death was thought to be suicide: but what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scrope...