First portrait of a criminal published in a British newspaper
On 27th June 1881, 64-years-old coin dealer Isaac Gold was brutally murdered on the 14:00 London to Brighton express train....
On 27th June 1881, 64-years-old coin dealer Isaac Gold was brutally murdered on the 14:00 London to Brighton express train....
In the 1690s the English army’s matchlock musket (slow to load, clumsy to operate at the mercy of the elements)...
A large sum of money – £4,000 in gold, to be precise – is due to be transferred from London...
The eight-year-old Alexander III had been king for only a few days when two factions began to struggle for control...
Katherine of Aragon died on 7th January, at Kimbolton House, possibly as a result of coronary thrombosis. She was buried...
Power was inherently and inescapably male in the Middle Ages. The images displayed on the Great Seal of England encapsulated...
Life at sea may not have been a particularly attractive prospect for a man in Georgian England, but it was...
On 23 December 1951, the Catholic clergy at Dijon organised an execution of Santa Claus. An image of him was...
Even in primitive societies, the threat of exile struck terror into people’s hearts and minds. A savage punishment, it snatched...
Bede was a Northumbrian, born in 673 on the lands of the monastery of St Peter at Wearmouth. At the...