Murder

Lord Lucan and his wife Veronica, shortly after becoming engaged in 1963. It is thought that Lady Lucan was the intended target of the attack in 1974 (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Murder and vanishing without a trace: the mysterious case of Lord Lucan

James Hamilton's 1880s painting 'The Massacre of Glencoe'.

Hell at Glencoe: what led to the massacre in the Scottish Highlands?

Q&ADid the Scottish mass-murdering cannibal Sawney Bean actually exist?

Antwerp: city of innovation & intrigue

How assassinations have changed history

James VI and I.

Was James VI and I murdered?

Murder: a legal history

King John hunting on horseback, 14th century. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Was King John murdered?

The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism

The hunt for Caesar’s killers

A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz

John Wilkes Booth leans forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln as he watches a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C, in 1865.

Q&AWhat play was Abraham Lincoln watching when he was shot?

The Cato Street conspiracy

Georgian terrorists: the Cato Street Conspiracy

Charles Manson stares out from fabric on sale in San Francisco

The afterlife of Charles Manson

Funeral of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme

Who killed Olof Palme?

"For those of noble birth who were condemned to die, execution by beheading (which was considered the least brutal method of execution) was used until the 18th century," says criminologist and historian Lizzie Seal. This illustration depicts the execution of Charles I in January 1649. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of capital punishment in Britain

An illustration of Edward II. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The big debate: was Edward II really murdered?

Robert the Bruce, famous for beating the English army of Edward II despite having far fewer troops, is commemorated at the 1314 battleground in Bannockburn. (Dreamstime)

Robert the Bruce: champion of Scotland or murderous usurper?

An 1870s illustration of a typical London artisan terraced houses with washhouses, privies and yards leading on to an alley, all dominated by railway viaducts. (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Victorian London’s East End: what can a foul murder tell us about life in the city?

The execution of Charles I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Murder, conspiracy and execution: six centuries of scandalous royal deaths

Prince Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland and fifth son of King George III

The Duke of Cumberland and his valet: a bloody tale of attempted murder

Icelandic murder mystery

Historical fiction and a US murder scandal

A Victorian murder and a ship that made history

Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer

Arsenic: a brief history of Agatha Christie’s favourite murder weapon

The gruesome remains of prehistoric murder victims uncovered in Europe's bogs

The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club