Crime and punishment

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 6: The other suspects

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 5: Circumstantial evidence and strange behaviour

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 4: Examining the evidence

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 3: The prime suspect

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 2: The timeline

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 1: The case

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

Rasputin: the ‘mad monk’ who became a friend to the Romanovs

Prince Charles with his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten at Windsor

Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated?

Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?

It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Women detectives: meet the Victorian female super sleuths

People gather around the Mona Lisa painting after its return in January 1914

Mona Lisa heist: how do you steal the world’s most famous painting?

A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

What if… Abraham Lincoln hadn't been assassinated?

What is history's greatest mystery?

What has been voted history’s greatest mystery?

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

The downfall of Thomas Cromwell

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters