The Victorian era was a time of dramatic change. An age of industry, democracy, mass literacy, ex...

Murder & robbery committed on the railways have long held a special place in British criminal his...

In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I ...

Whilst much has been written about the Jacobites, most works have tended to look at the Rebellion...

Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions - the armed attempts made by the Stuar...

The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relat...

* Fascinating reinvestigation of the Haigh serial murders of 1944-9 * Based on fresh primary rese...

Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to o...

Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the ...

Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland that was to decide the fate o...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Ealing has change...

Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the ...

A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an...

The infamous Second Crumbles murder reveals a shocking case whose brutal dismemberment and trial ...

For much of its history Ealing was a rural village in Middlesex, outside London. Improved communi...

London is a key site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry bac...

'Hangman Hawley' is one of the villains of the '45 and holds a prominent place in Jacobite demono...

Overshadowed by the better known Spanish Armada of 1588, three centuries ago, the final Spanish A...

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Jonathan Oates's gripping accounts of this wide range of serial killings gives us a powerful insi...

Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to o...

Agatha Christie's detective fiction is deeply inspired by real-life crimes, criminals, and histor...

The trial of the year in 1950 was of Donald Hume, a North London petty thief accused of stabbing ...

There were more sieges than there were battles during the Jacobite campaign in Scotland and Engla...

In the quaint seaside town of Bude, Cornwall, a seemingly innocent afternoon tea in 1930 unravels...

'Hangman Hawley' is one of the villains of the '45 and holds a prominent place in Jacobite demono...

There has not been an account of the first attempt made in Scotland to restore the exiled Stuarts...

Titus Oates, architect of the false Popish Plot, embodies deceit, ambition, and turmoil in Restor...

Originally a county town in Middlesex, Ealing became known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs' when joi...

Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How co...

An essential introduction to one of the most rewarding sources for family historians.

Preston was the first battle of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 and the last to be fought on Engli...