From Mad Jack Mytton setting himself on fire to cure hiccups, to the Duke who built 15 miles of underground tunnels to avoid people, meet the most gloriously strange figures in British history.

The founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935 traces back to Carl Jung, a hallucination in a New York hospital, and a six-hour conversation in Ohio. Here's the full story.

A limestone tablet from 1250 BCE lists 40 ancient Egyptian workers and their reasons for missing work, from scorpion bites to brewing beer. Meet the world's oldest attendance register.