In 1936, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover flew to New Orleans to help capture Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis, one of the last great fugitives of America's gangster era. The arrest became a publicity triumph, although its most memorable detail involved a startling shortage of handcuffs.

Foyle's War turned the Sussex seaside town of Hastings into a landscape of murder, espionage and wartime suspicion, but the real history was every bit as unsettling. From threatened invasion and bombing raids to civilians sheltering beneath the cliffs, discover why Anthony Horowitz chose this particular corner of Britain for his celebrated detective.

In 1981, Britain's record industry warned that home taping was killing music, as if a blank cassette were a weapon of mass destruction. The panic overlooked the mixtapes, independent musicians and underground networks already turning that same piece of plastic into a cultural revolution.