Crime and punishment

Armstrong's wife Katherine died in February 1921 after months of ill-health. Police found high levels of arsenic after her body was exhumed and he was charged for his wife's murder Major and Mrs. Herbert Armstrong. January 1922 (Photo by WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

Herbert Rowse Armstrong Innocent solicitor or guilty murderer?

A portrait of a young Queen Victoria from around the time of the first assassination attempt in 1840

What if… Queen Victoria had been assassinated?

Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen

General History

Enemies of the state 10 high-profile treason cases

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Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, with his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination on 28 June 1914

First World War

Franz Ferdinand “This mythologised murder did not trigger WW1”

Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

Joyce Lee Malcolm on gun ownership in America “Why is the right to be armed such an emotional one for Americans? No police force can protect everyone, or even any one, all of the time”

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

Juneteenth: what is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s

Why we should remember… Richard Nixon's war on drugs

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US president Richard Nixon in 1970

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal

Princess Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour, who may have abused the young princess

Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

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Pod Nell Darby WL

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Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?