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Elizabeth Báthory: a 17th-century ‘serial killer’
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A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders
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Historical Cold Cases
The Murder Of ‘Madame X’
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The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England
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The Affair of the Poisons: who plotted to kill King Louis XIV?
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Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know
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The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685: your guide to the a duke’s failed bid to overthrow his uncle, James II and VI
Georgian
Royals on the stand: how Queen Charlotte’s son the Duke of Cumberland faced down a libel scandal
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Georgian
The Gallows Pole
The true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners
Victorian
Nell Darby's historical cold cases
The Hoxton Horror
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William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls
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The scandals that rocked Queen Charlotte’s court
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Nell Darby's historical cold cases
The parents who never recovered
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