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In the winter of 1803, Hammersmith was not yet the busy part of west London it would later become. It…

New Orleans in 1918 was already a city of noise, heat, tension, and rumour. It had music in its streets,…

Jack McVitie belonged to the dangerous half-lit world of post-war London crime, where reputation could be currency, protection could be…

On 30 June 1999, the partially decomposed body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick was found in a field near West Alton…

On Wednesday, 26 January 1966, Australia Day, the Beaumont family in Somerton Park, a coastal suburb of Adelaide, began what…

In the early twentieth century, stories of literary prodigies were rare enough to capture national attention, but few were as…

On a spring afternoon in 1812, the House of Commons in London was bustling with its usual chorus of footsteps,…

It sounds like the premise of a maritime ghost story. A quiet coastline, a stray trainer washed ashore, and inside…

On the evening of 16 August 1660, in the quiet market‑town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, an elderly steward named…

Aileen Wuornos was a woman whose story blurs the line between victim and killer. Between 1989 and 1990, Wuornos murdered…