The New Newgate Calendar

The cricket season is upon us and England have already won and lost a couple of home tests this summer. In London test matches are usually played at either... read more »

Headline from the Tacoma (Wash.) Daily News, June 7, 1895. On this date in 1895, the hangman noosed for the cycle with single, double, and triple executions... read more »

By Cassie Watson; posted 7 June 2018. It is rare to come across a clear confession of guilt made by the alleged perpetrator in a murder case. According... read more »

In 1888, a murderer – or murderers – struck in East London, killing several women in gruesome ways. The offender (if, indeed, it was only one)... read more »

Between May and October 1883 thousands of visitors flocked daily to South Kensington to see what was the largest ever ‘special event’ to staged... read more »

This tale of a dreadful Maltese wife-murder arrives via the Times of Malta’s roundup of sensational hanging crimes on that Mediterranean island.... read more »

As John Holland was walking along the Back Road in Shadwell he saw a man attacking an elderly man and his wife. He rushed over and remonstrated with him,... read more »

On this date in 1806, immigrants Dominic Daley and James Halligan were hanged at Northampton, Massachusetts. In the words of one widely reproduced report,... read more »

It was a Friday evening in early June 1876 and Henry Stokes and his wife and son were coming home from a day out at the races. As they family rode in their... read more »

On Saturday 4 June 1887 The Illustrated Police News carried a story from the regional press of a unfortunate brewery worker in Sheffield who... read more »

This date’s post brings us back to one of our regular wells, James Kelly’s Gallows Speeches From Eighteenth-Century Ireland … and the... read more »

On this date in 1946, Chen Gongbo, president of China under the Japanese occupation, was shot for treason. Briefly a Communist in his youth, Chen was Kuomintang... read more »

Lambeth Bridge in the 1800s The Standard‘s coverage of the Police Courts of the Metropolis at the engining of June make fairly grim reading. At Lambeth... read more »

On this date in 1453, the man who was once the power behind Castile’s throne became its foremost cautionary metaphor. The greatest privado —... read more »

After a campaign by Mary Carpenter and others Parliament passed the Reformatory Schools Act in 1854. This piece of legislation allowed magistrates to send... read more »

On this date in 1813, Anglo-American fur trader John Clarke had an indigenous Nez Perce summarily hanged for stealing a goblet … dangerously poisoning... read more »

  Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of visiting the Charles Dickens museum in Doughty Street and then going on a walking tour of the area led... read more »