“HE WAS A MONSTER AND I WAS ONE OF HIS VICTIMS” – THE STORY OF A FATAL CHARMER. The Moat Farm Murder was carried out in 1899 but was not properly investigated until four years later. It proved to be ...

DARK DEEDS AS THE SOULS WERE WILD Stephen Wade reflects on some disturbing criminal tales from the days of hanging.

The time we celebrate at the end of October has little to do with pumpkins or white blankets over our heads, although that fun is always welcome. No, Hallowe’en is when restless souls are about, and ...

The former Great Eastern Railway was at one time seen as a rather dull sleepy railway in the eastern corner of England whose principal traffic was London commuters, holiday makers to the Essex, ...

Witchcraft? The word sends shivers down the spines of many of us, especially when the dark fingers of winter night begin to creep around the corners of the house, when the wind howls and shadows ...

I’ve collected three stories about underworld women from my new book, British Gangs, to share with you this Halloween season. I really enjoyed uncovering their stories, less well-known than the lives ...

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The orphaned Philadelphia Austen was forced to seek for herself those objects of eighteenth-century womanhood: social esteem and financial independence. Her story is circumscribed by the limitations ...

From Rifleman to Air Marshal, Sir Brian Baker excelled in every role. Having transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and learning to fly in record time on a Maurice Farman Longhorn, he progressed to a ...

To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine as it lifted off from the seaplane base at RAF Invergordon on Sunday, 25 ...

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The small group of enthusiasts and photographers who had braved the winter weather and gathered on the slopes of the Lake District’s iconic valleys on Wednesday, 9 January 2019, were witnesses to the ...