Penny Dreadfuls

When French brush manufacturer Jean Kinck was approached by a young man with a business proposition in 1869, he couldn’t believe his luck. Jean had

13 was unquestionably an unlucky number for young John Wilkins. He was 13 years old when he was murdered, and it happened on Friday 13th

How do you go about finding someone who walks round a corner and disappears, seemingly without a trace? This is what happened in the curious

This is a century old case of mistaken identity which led to changes to the British legal system and demonstrates just how unreliable witness descriptions

What do two drunken miners, blackmail, a charred body, and a warlock have in common? Believe it or not, they were all part of a

 Running a brush manufacturing business was not exciting enough for Henry Wainwright. What he really dreamed of was being in the theatre. He lived with

Mr Edward Adolphus Walshe was not a popular station master. He ran a tight ship at Dover Priory station in Kent, Southeast England. In the

The Reverend Elias Huelin had obviously forgotten the bible quote about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle,

In the 1800s, it was rare for crimes committed outside England to reach the Illustrated Police News, a popular newspaper sold for sixpence to bloodthirsty