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Crime and punishment

Pirates burying a treasure chest on a beach as their captain looks on
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Q&A X marks the spot: did pirates bury their treasure?

A 17th century sketch of a peg-legged pirate walking with the aid of crutches
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Q&A Did any real pirates wear eyepatches or have peg legs?

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Victorian

A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin

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20th Century

A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River
Victorian

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin. (Getty Images)
First World War

Did a British agent murder Rasputin?

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20th Century

The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

John Callow discusses the tragic case of the Bideford witches, the last women in England to be executed for the crime of witchcraft. (Image by Getty Images)
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England’s last witches

Froissart illustration of Hugh Despenser the Younger's execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered. Despenser is on a ladder, as a man beside him disembowels him and tosses his entrails into a fire
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‘Godly butchery’: the horrifying history of hanging, drawing and quartering

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

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The Zong Massacre: what the dark episode meant for the British slave trade and abolition

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Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)
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Why did the 1605 gunpowder plot fail? 9 big questions about the conspiracy to blow up parliament

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