History is just one damned thing after another" - Arnold Toynbee A mapcap new slant on history that seems to be everyone"s cup of tea... Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St Mary"s, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don"t do "time-travel" - they "investigate major historical events in contemporary time". Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary"s Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History"s unanswered questions...and not to die in the process. But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And, as they soon discover - it"s not just History they"re fighting. Follow the catastrophe curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous...