Crime and punishment

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

General History

From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history

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Pod Paul Fischer WL

The vanishing inventor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, with his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination on 28 June 1914

First World War

Franz Ferdinand “This mythologised murder did not trigger WW1”

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Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

Joyce Lee Malcolm on gun ownership in America “Why is the right to be armed such an emotional one for Americans? No police force can protect everyone, or even any one, all of the time” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s

Why we should remember… Richard Nixon's war on drugs

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Pod Clifford Williamson WL

Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US president Richard Nixon in 1970

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal

Princess Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour, who may have abused the young princess

Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

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Pod Nell Darby WL

Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

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Pod Shushma Malik Panel WL

Corruption in the ancient world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scene of the Peterloo Massacre

Q&A Why do we say “Read the Riot Act”?

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What one duel can tell us about Jacobean England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Prohibition: busting myths about the ban on booze . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.