Orchard Beach is one of the great 1930s public works projects in New York City. It's early history as a campsite is a window into leisure patterns in New York City's coastal hinterlands in the 19th century, while the beach's redevelopment in the 1930s speaks to the career of the city's infamous power broker and master builder, Robert Moses.

Learn about how and why the famous manufacturer built a factory here, in northwestern Queens, in the late 19th century. Steinway's investments in this corner of what was once the independent municipality of Long Island City proved a key contribution to the growth of greater New York City.

Learn more about Hart Island's history as New York City's largest potter's field--as well as the surprising, often-overlooked history of Solomon Riley's attempt to build an amusement park on the island's southern tip.

Learn about New York City's "King of Beer Corners" George Ehret, his German American community in Yorkville, on the Upper East Side, and his role in New York City's flourishing brewery industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Recounts the story of Amelia Kennedy who, in 1871, died in a fire at her home in Edwards Lane, Stoke Newington, while trying to save other members of her family.

In 909 the bones of Oswald of Northumbria were brought to Gloucester from Bardney in Lincolnshire by Æthelred and Æthelflæd, rulers of Mercia. In time the minster they had founded in Gloucester came to be named after this northern king. Find out why a northern king was an attractive patron to Merican rulers and how the northern connection was later reactivated by the Archbishops of York.

The St Giles ruins are Maldon's only ancient scheduled monument. While in popular imagination medieval leper hospitals are thought of as places of exclusion, the truth is more complex and the community at St Giles was embedded in networks that stretched from the town centre out into the surrounding countryside.

One of the most precious possessions of the monks of Peterborough was the incorrupt right arm of King Oswald. What was this relic? And how did it come to be installed in a chapel in Peterborough Abbey?

Recounts the story of Dr Alexander Stewart Brown from Brockley who lost his life following a series of unfortunate events.