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Crime and punishment

A black and white illustration showing two men dressed in dark clothing and hats sitting in a rowing boat. One of them sits halfway in the boat, holding the oars. The other is leant over the front of the boat and is pulling the body of a woman out of the water. Behind them is a bridge with two large arches underneath it

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He's the Victorian serial killer you've never heard of – and we may now know who he was. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The prince and the brothel: 6 scandals that rocked the British monarchy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From maniacal horses to bat-men on the moon: 14 strange newspaper headlines from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1The MILLION pound forgery | Mrs Rudd vs the Perreaus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Meet the incredible woman who saved Portugal's Jews. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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She defied the Nazis and paid the ultimate price: why I'm in awe of Sophie Scholl's courage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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These are four of the most brutal Victorian murders. Were women really the perpetrators?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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I've just been inside a Nazi monster's mansion – and what I found there was deeply haunting. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fake news and the Dreyfus affair: the media-fuelled scandal that divided France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Defendants at the Nuremberg Trials listen to proceedings in 1946. In the front row sit Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner; behind them are Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, and Fritz Sauckel. Together they represent the senior leadership of the Nazi regime held to account for its crimes.

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“I hope I would have defended the Nazis at Nuremberg”

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Was there a real Sheriff of Nottingham?

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The Srebrenica massacre: the worst atrocity committed on European soil since the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Spring-Heeled Jack: the fire-breathing phantom that terrorised Victorian England

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Scotland's season of the witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why it was more dangerous to steal a loaf of bread than commit murder in medieval England

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The "outwardly respectable" man who had a body in his basement: how the Dr Crippen case shocked Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor angels of death: the 16th-century obsession with female killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gilles de Rais, accused of murdering at least 140 children in 15th-century France

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Was Gilles de Rais really history’s first recorded serial killer?

Ruth Ellis and her friend Desmond Cussen

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The true story of Ruth Ellis and the hanging that rocked a nation

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Who were the real Forty Elephants? The true story of Mary Carr and the all-woman crime gang

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“Literally whipped”: the boys who took the beatings meant for royal bottoms

John F Kennedy in 1960 (left) and would-be assassin Richard Pavlick

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The JFK assassination attempt you’ve never heard of

Lilian Lenton, collage by Rachel Dickens

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Lilian Lenton, the 'Elusive Pimpernel': the courageous and daring suffragette who took direct action. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How to build a radical: what the Gunpowder Plot can teach us about extremism today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nazino was Stalin’s worst labour gulag. Its inmates knew it by another name: Cannibal Island

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13 famous cowboys and gunslingers from the history of the American Wild West

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Who was ‘The Welsh Houdini’?Coch Bach y Bala, the legendary prison escape artist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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)

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Murder and vanishing without a trace: the mysterious case of Lord Lucan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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