The New Newgate Calendar

When Louis Perry sent his errand boy off to deliver some work for him he gave him strict instructions. Lipman Forkell was to take some boots to his customer... read more »

Metta Fock was beheaded in Sweden on this date in 1810. Fock (English Wikipedia entry | Swedish), daughter to the just-hanging-on lesser nobility, got... read more »

For the next few days I am taking a short holiday from writing this blog so I thought that I might revisit some of the ‘highlights’ of the... read more »

Sixteen-year-old partisan Alexander Chekalin earned his martyrs’ crown as a Hero of the Soviet Union when he was executed by the occupying Third... read more »

Photography was still a fairly new science in 1880. The world’s first photograph was possibly that made in 1826 using Joseph Nicephore Niepce’s... read more »

On this date in 1849, Pierre Dudragne was guillotined at Chalon-sur-Saone. He’d done a doubly dirty deed, choking out the 85-year-old widow Marechal... read more »

Advertisement in the Tewkesbury Register, 28 Oct 1876, for fireworks on sale at a business in Tewkesbury, which may not have been too popular with its... read more »

At half past one on the morning of Saturday 3 November 1849 police constable Henry Hewitt (164N) was on his beat in Islington, proceeding along Thornhill... read more »

The last man hanged in Cambridgeshire was Frederick Seekings on this date in 1913, for the drunken murder of his lover. “Of limited intellect and... read more »

Harris Rosenthorn ran a small grocer’s shop on Plummer’s Row, Whitechapel. For a few days he’d noticed a young immigrant loitering nearby... read more »

On this date in 1740,* Ned “Darcy, one of the Kellymount gang, was tried at Carlow, on the Proclamation; and, being proved to be the man, in ten... read more »

Constable William Hanson (103F) was on duty on Waterloo Bridge when a hansom cab pulled up. Nothing unusual in that of course but what followed was. The... read more »

George W. Martin was a music teacher with a social conscience, a man that comes across as a real-life ‘Mr Brownlow’, the benevolent savior... read more »

Boyarina Feodosia Morozova starved to death in the early hours past midnight on the night of November 1-2, 1675. This wealthy “Old Believer”... read more »

Mineral Point, Wisconsin’s historic Walker House inn and tavern hosted a public execution on this date in 1842 … and rumor has it that the... read more »

Winter is coming. Hallowe’en has come and gone and Bonfire Night is looming. The clocks have gone back and the air has turned distinctly chilly.... read more »