Crime and punishment

Illustration by Rose Wilkinson

William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls

The debtors’ exercise grounds at Newgate prison in 1809. The debtors’ prison was a feature of everyday life in 18th-century England (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Inside debtors’ prisons: what life was like for people jailed in Georgian Britain

A painting depicts Frederica, the bride- to-be of Frederick, Duke of York, meeting in-laws George III and Queen Charlotte for the first time

The scandals that rocked Queen Charlotte’s court

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A report about the murder from an edition of the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Despite gaining national press coverage, the case is largely forgotten today.

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The parents who never recovered . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Burke and Hare

Industrial revolution

Burke and Hare Lisa Rosner on the pair's crime spree

Queen Victoria

Assassinating Queen Victoria: the men who attempted to murder the monarch

An 1812 cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson depicts highwaymen in action in the days when travellers made for easy pickings for criminals (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson’s General History

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Mary Sophia Money's brother, Robert Henry Money, is believed to have been the murderer 'Robert Hicks Murray'

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The Money Murders . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An artist’s impression of Frances Saunders printed in an edition of the Weekly Dispatch, in which she was incorrectly named ‘Mrs Francis’

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The strange case of 'Mr Francis' . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from 'Le Petit Parisien', 1891.

Historical cold cases Murder in the year of the Ripper . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

Billy the Kid The Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

Conspiracy WL Anastasia

Conspiracy Did Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

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The floating hell of prison hulks . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.