No Time Like The Past

"History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities." - Henry Steele Commager

Summary

"Jodi Taylor’s best-selling series The Chronicles of St Mary is back with a bang …

''St Mary’s has been rebuilt and it’s business as usual for the History department. But first, there’s the little matter of a seventeenth-century ghost that only Mr Markham can see. Not to mention the minor inconvenience of being trapped in the Great Fire of London … and an unfortunately-timed comfort break at Thermopylae leaving the fate of the western world hanging in the balance. Re-join Max’s madcap journey through time in Jodi Taylor’s fifth inter-dimensional installment No Time Like the Past.''"

Spoiler Plot Summary for No Time Like the Past (NTLP)
 * The first four chapters were investigating Markham's ghost, with a jump to St. Mary's, 1643, during the English Civil War
 * Jump to the Crystal Palace, London, 1851. Sees young Dr. Bairstow and Anne, and an older Clive Ronan.
 * Everybody but Max and Markham jump to the Great Fire, 3 September 1666, to salvage things St. Peter Cathedral then bury them at St. Mary's. They don't come back, so Max and Markham have to jump to rescue them, but since she also exists on that    day, she only has an hour. They are missing Schiller.
 * They dig up the St. Paul's treasure and find a dead Schiller and a note from Ronan and Barclay
 * Open Day at St. Mary's with a zany raft race against Thirsk; Bloody Isabella Bitchface Barclay bizarrely tells Max she's her sister, then shoots her in the back. Van Owen shoots Barclay. Max lives. Van Owen departs.
 * Jump to Bonfire of the Vanities Florence 7th February 1497
 * Max hurt, Leon rescues and one proposes to the other, but we don't know which??
 * Max switches jobs with Peterson
 * Max, Peterson, and Markham jump to the Battle of Thermopylae 480BC
 * Wedding to Leon