Crime and punishment

Newspaper ballad about highwaywoman Susan Higges

The real Renegade Nell? The bloody ballad of female highwaywoman Susan Higges

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Video podcast Conspiracy: who killed JFK? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of John Wilkes Booth

Why did John Wilkes Booth kill Abraham Lincoln? And how was he caught?

Sir Walter Raleigh, a portrait of the great favourite of Queen Elizabeth I

Q&A Why was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?

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Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English highwayman Dick Turpin is pictured astride his horse, leaping over a gate, as he flees his pursuers

The extraordinary legend of highwayman Dick Turpin

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Conspiracy Who killed JFK?

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An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen

General History

Traitor or Faithful British history's most notorious treason cases

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Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

Victorian murder scandals What six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A black and white engraving showing three rows of girls with dresses and white caps, sitting and working at desks, looked over by some women.

Reading, writing and retribution: inside Victorian prison schools . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Marshal Pétain: Vichy France in the dock . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Lucan with his future wife Veronica Duncan. He is in a suit and she's wearing a smart outfit.

Lord Lucan’s disappearance

Jesse Plemons as lawman Tom White

Who was Tom White in Killers of the Flower Moon?