‘Wicked old lady’ in the dock: perhaps her uncles had given her an alibi. Maybe Emma was innocent of murdering her father. But she was jailed for a series of frauds

Was his verse the worst? The Kent-based poet laureate was a figure of fun (but he had a lovely garden)

It’s hideous, said the archbishop: planners wanted a new city. The old guard fought modernity and Canterbury was saddled with an architectural compromise

A fly on the window: fitting church memorial for entomologist who perished in No Man’s Land

That’s magic! Conjurer’s career didn’t stop with stage tricks. His parents were horrified

Weeping relic: Boxley’s money-making Rood of Grace was no miracle but a devious fake

Medway wreck: boatman’s cunning failed him at Rochester Bridge

Eagle-tamer resisted Nazi honey trap: sniper studied birdlife from the trenches and became a film star

Oven vaults: the ‘exceptional’ tombs where coffins rest above ground

Book review: Trains and trams … and a hovercraft