The New Newgate Calendar

On this date in 1947, Dutch troops fighting (vainly) to keep Indonesia under colonial sway perpetrated one of the most notorious massacres of the Indonesian... read more »

Before I became an academic historian I worked mostly in retail. I enjoyed the busy Christmas period but it has to be said that shopkeepers and shop staff... read more »

Join the Old Bailey Online team at the launch of the new exhibition Criminal Lives, 1780-1925: Punishing Old Bailey Convicts! The exhibition is a... read more »

This lovely building was constructed by one William Turner in 1845. Turner was an enterprising man who spared no expense in having his hotel furnished... read more »

From the Wilkes-Barre (Penn.) Times, Dec. 8, 1905. Mary Rogers Died on the Scaffold Paid the Last Penalty of the Law After a Legal Fight of Two Years —... read more »

Today I am spending most of my time in Whitechapel planning out a history trip for my undergraduate students. This is something I do every year –... read more »

On this date in 1799, the subversive priest Francesco Conforti was hanged in the Piazza Mercato for his role in the Naples Parthenopean Republic. This... read more »

All this week at my university we are running a series of events designed at raising awareness of issues surrounding sexual assault, harassment and consent.... read more »

Two of eight Apache — Nacod Qui Say and Rah Dos La, among other possible transliterations — who murdered an Arizona sheriff and deputy while... read more »

When Sarah Craddock was put in the dock at Marylebone Police Court to answer a charge of stealing from her master it uncovered an ugly family quarrel,... read more »

The U.S. state Maryland executed Wesley Baker on this date in 2005 — the last man ever put to death there. Baker accosted* a 49-year-old woman named... read more »

Victorian Bermondsey Sometimes even when you have a full trial account at Old Bailey in addition to the initial report of a pre-trial hearing before a... read more »

On this date in 1531, a Welsh nobleman whose grandfather had been instrumental in raising the Tudor dynasty up caught the downswing of the Tudor dynasty’s... read more »

When I think of boxing twins I always think of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the East End’s premier gangsters of the twentieth century. There was something... read more »

December 3 is the feast date of the minor and perhaps fictional martyr Cassian of Tangier. Not to be confused with the later Julian the Apostate-era martyr... read more »

If you want to know the time, ask a policeman.The proper city time, ask a policeman,Every member of the force has a watch and chain, of course,How he got... read more »

The New Police (created in London in 1829) spent most of their time on patrol. They were tasked with knowing their beat inside out; all the locals, shops,... read more »

Today’s short and plaintive broadsheet arrives via James Kelly’s Gallows Speeches From Eighteenth-Century Ireland, a source we have enjoyed... read more »

Hans Erasmus, Count of Tattenbach, was beheaded as a traitor in Graz. Governor of Styria in present-day Slovenia, Tattenbach took an unwise interest in... read more »

A family nursemaid and her fellow servant were taking the children in their care to the park when they ran into an angry pedestrian. The case was trivial... read more »