John Cooper

He encourage Elizabeth to make war against the Catholic Irish rebels, with extreme brutality and oversaw the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's history. Meer

Beautiful postcards capture old Harpenden in all its glory. Meer

Desperate, Hermann Beier of Alliston, Ontario, turned to bank robbery in the early 1990s to pay his mounting bills and ended up being pursued in what became at the time the longest police chase in Canadian history. Meer

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Rickmansworth, Croxley Green & Chorleywood have changed and developed over the last century. Meer