Series 1

A group of con artists posing as spiritualists go head to head with a real one.

The story of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters, a notorious Victorian courtesan.

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

Authors Charlotte Brontë and William Makepeace Thackeray attend the same dinner party when the hostess's husband suddenly arrives and wants his wife to come back to him.

Scholar and photographer Arthur Munby orchestrates a study of working-class women, and secretly marries Hannah Cullwick, who continues to pose as his servant.

An attempt to publish a pamphlet advocating birth control results in a notorious prosecution for obscenity.

When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion called the Abode of Love.