The New Newgate Calendar

This month, sadly, we should remember the lives of two women that were prematurely ended. The disappearance and death of Gabby Petito in Wyoming has caused... read more »

By Cassie Watson; posted 26 September 2021. Having recently examined the eighteenth-century origins of acid throwing, and some of its main nineteenth-century... read more »

The Radcliffe Camera (© Nell Darby) In 1898, the librarian of Oxford’s prestigious Bodleian library, Edward Williams Byron Nicholson, then aged 49,... read more »

Newspaper reports between 1902 and 1904 suggest that George Anderson was of no fixed abode and was well known to the police in Aberdeen. As with John Cormack,... read more »

If you walk down Barrack Street in Warwick, you might spot something rather incongruous, set into a wall. It is an old door, with a green sign above it... read more »

This blog post will focus on the changing system of aged and invalid pauper care in Van Diemen’s Land up until the turn of the century. Changing beliefs... read more »

If The Aberdeen Journal of the 30th November 1899 is to be believed, John Cormack was arrested and imprisoned for little more than acting in a shifty manner... read more »