The New Newgate Calendar

On this date in 1624, Coimbra University theologian Antonio Homem was burned at the stake in a Lisbon auto de fe. Homem came from a “neo-Christian”... read more »

May 4, 1471 was the date of one of England’s most pivotal battles, Tewkesbury. Tewkesbury was the last great victory in the War of the Roses for... read more »

From the Newgate Calendar: These cruel women were born at Philips Norton, in Somersetshire. The mother was distinguished from her childhood by the cruelty... read more »

On this date in 1923, the only woman ever executed in Alberta’s history was hanged at Fort Saskatchewan. Alberta had introduced alcohol prohibition... read more »

Despite attempts by alienists such as Conolly, Maudsley, Laycock and Winslow, the gap between medical discourse and the prevailing legal minds remained... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1945 in Berlin, a German woman named Charlotte Rebhun was executed... read more »