by Karen | Jan 21, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On the 11th of May 1812, Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister of the day, entered the lobby of the House of Commons. Where a man was waiting, wearing a specially adapted jacket to conceal a loaded pistol and a...
by Karen | Jan 16, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In December 1969, Arthur Hosein was a man in financial trouble, so he and his brother hatched a plan. Kidnap the wife of Rupert Murdoch, the new owner of The Sun and the News of the World Newspapers. On the 29th of...
by Karen | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Dr John Bodkin Adams was a general practitioner working in the seaside town of Eastbourne. He was not a talented doctor but was considered compassionate and caring by his rich clients. However, from 1935, people began to...
by Karen | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Caroline Walsh was 84 years old in 1831. She had fallen on hard times and had to make money by spending hours walking the streets selling ribbons and threads. When her neighbours, Elizabeth Ross and her common-law husband...
by Karen | Dec 17, 2025 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Lawrence and Dorothy Fisher were a married couple who, despite having a lot of love and respect for each other, simply couldn’t make it work. They parted ways in 1934 but remained civil for the sake of their teenage...
by Karen | Dec 10, 2025 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here The Oxford English Dictionary is the principal historical dictionary of the English language. When it was originally compiled, volunteers were recruited to find and submit quotations of words in use. The principal...
by Karen | Dec 3, 2025 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In the early morning hours of the 4th May 1957, doctors attended the home of Kenneth and Elizabeth Barlow. Elizabeth had been discovered, apparently drowned in her bath. On the surface, a tragic loss of a young mother....
by Karen | Nov 19, 2025 | 1920s Cases, Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Francis Percy Toplis was a career criminal starting in childhood. He was a bully, a thief and eventually a murderer. But there would be no trial or conviction. Percy would be shot and killed in a standoff with the...
by Karen | Sep 20, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On Friday, the 10th of April 1835, a trial opened at Bristol Assizes that caused great excitement throughout the city. Mary Ann Burdock stood accused of the murder of Clara Anne Smith, her elderly lodger, to steal the...
by Karen | Aug 10, 2025 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In the early hours of March 6th, 1922, a well-dressed man sat calmly drinking tea in a London flat, while the body of a woman he had just murdered lay in the bathroom. As the morning light filtered through the windows, he...
