The New Newgate Calendar

Something different caught my eye this morning and so this is not a case from the Police Courts but possibly one that could develop into a prosecution... read more »

This date in 1779 saw the execution in Worcester, Mass., of one Robert Young, a schoolteacher who favored the occasion with the following verse from his... read more »

This morning we remember the fallen of all conflicts but with particular focus on the 100 year anniversary of the end of the First World War. There has... read more »

The U.S. Army hanged five German civilians as war criminals at Bruchsal Prison on this date in 1945. Their crime: lynching the crew of a downed American... read more »

Today it is the annual Lord Mayor’s show in the City of London. This event has been repeated at this time for hundreds of years and when I was a... read more »

On this date in 1773, Eva Faschaunerin was beheaded for the arsenic murder of her husband Jakob Kary, mere weeks after their 1770 marriage. Faschaunerin... read more »

Posted by Sara M. Butler, 9 November 2018. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried the dishonesty of lawyers in his Policraticus, he targeted the... read more »

Today is the 130 anniversary of the discovery of the body of Mary Jane Kelly in Miller’s Court, Dorset Street, Spitalfields in November 1888. Mary... read more »

One of the most notorious murder cases in 20th century Wales came in the first year of that century, as the reign of Queen Victoria approached its end,... read more »

On this date in 1721, a woman named Catharina Margaretha Linck was beheaded with a sword in the Halberstadt fishmarket for homosexuality. One projects... read more »

I’m not sure this example of Victorian ‘justice’ would have troubled the magistrates courts today. I am even more convinced that it wouldn’t... read more »

The execution hook for today’s post does not arrive until the end of the excerpt below Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac* … the French explorer... read more »

After four fantastic years losing myself in records, archives, and histories of convicts transported to Australia,  I’m thrilled to finally... read more »

Thanks to funding from BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities, the Digital Panopticon has a new baby project! Tattooing has a long history, but the... read more »

In my seminar last week my students and I were discussing forms of property crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One of those we focused on... read more »

On this date in 1938, Kyrgyz intellectual and statesman Kasym Tynystanov was executed during Stalin’s Great Purge. Kasym Tynystanov, on modern Kyrgyzstan’s... read more »

Mrs Davis was a shirt maker operating in Houndsditch on the edge of the City of London. She lived in Gun Square and made shirts for a shopkeeper (Mr Cook)... read more »

China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported thusly: CHANGCHUN, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — A Mafia ring leader, who is also son of a former high-ranking... read more »

It is that time of the year again. The period when all the supermarkets stock fireworks for Guy Fawkes and Diwali. Last Wednesday I was walking out of... read more »

From the Greenfield (Massachusetts) Gazette, November 30, 1807: NEW LONDON, (Con.) Nov. 11. On Wednesday last, Henry Niles, an Indian, was executed in... read more »

I thought I’d do something a little different this morning. I’ve been writing reports from the Victorian Police courts for over two years now... read more »

On this date in 1913, Spanish Captain Manuel Sanchez Lopez was shot for a scandalous affair of incest and murder. You’ll need Spanish for most sources... read more »

It must have caused quite a stir at Wandsworth Police court when a respectably dressed woman stepped into the witness box and placed a loaded revolver... read more »

On this date in 1907,* revolutionary sailor Afanasi Mat(y)ushenko was executed for his part in tsarist Russia’s Potemkin mutiny. The son of a liberated... read more »

Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett might be forgiven for not really knowing ‘how the poor live[d]’ in 1888. He had been appointed a magistrate for Westminster... read more »

To begin the twelfth year of these morbid annals, we’d like to direct readers to another resource for almanac execution-posting: the Facebook page... read more »

The City of London police were only created in 1839, a decade after the Met. This was partly because the square mile had resisted Sir Robert’s Peel’s... read more »

After four fantastic years losing myself in records, archives, and histories of convicts transported to Australia,  I’m thrilled to finally... read more »