Murder

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

In the 16th century, Antwerp was a global centre of trade, talked about around the world. Michael Pye considers its rise and bloody fall. (Image from Getty Images)

Antwerp: city of innovation & intrigue

Michael Burleigh discusses some of history’s key political killings, from Julius Caesar to Abraham Lincoln. (Image from Getty Images)

How assassinations have changed history

A 1628 engraving of the Spanish siege of the Dutch city of Breda

Was James VI and I murdered?

Kate Morgan chronicles the legal history of murder, discussing the cases that shaped UK murder laws. (Image by Getty Images)

Murder: a legal history

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

Was King John murdered?

Dean Irwin explains the story of the 1190 anti-Semitic massacre at Clifford’s Tower in York, and how it fits into the wider story of England’s medieval Jewish population. (Image by Getty Images)

The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism

Peter Stothard reveals how Julius Caesar’s assassination triggered a brutal power struggle, one that would transform ancient Rome. (Image by Getty Images)

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)

Second World War

Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz

John Bellingham Who Shot the Hon. Spencer Percival Print

The assassination of prime minister Spencer Perceval: what happened and was it a popular murder?

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&A What play was Abraham Lincoln watching when he was shot?

The Cato Street conspiracy

Georgian terrorists: the Cato Street Conspiracy

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

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

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?