The New Newgate Calendar

Today, stories involving people who refuse on religious grounds to seek medical help for themselves or members of their family are still to be found in... read more »

Forty-six minutes after midnight this morning, the U.S. state of Georgia executed its oldest death row inmate, Brandon Astor Jones. Jones was a prolific... read more »

In April 1834, the residents of Battery Point started collecting donations to help pay for the construction of a church in their neighborhood. Under the... read more »

On this date in 1940, Soviet writer Mikhail Koltsov was shot at Lubyanka Prison. Maybe the premier journalist of the early Bolshevik state, Koltsov (English... read more »

One of the benefits of the Prosecution Project’s large-scale digitisation of court records is that it not only allows researchers to trace individuals,... read more »

Harrisburg Patriot, Feb. 2, 1871 On this date in 1871, John Hanlon expiated a cold-case Philadelphia murder. Back in September of 1868, a young girl named... read more »