Victorian crime and punishment

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A Victorian murder and a ship that made history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Victorians' grisly fascination with murder. (Illustration by Ben Jones for BBC History Magazine)

The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder

The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea in a duel at Battersea Fields. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Pistols at dawn: duelling in the Victorian age

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9 astonishing deaths reported in Victorian newspapers

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror