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Crime and punishment

Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

General Early Modern

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of witchcraft. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn pays Mark Smeaton a final visit in Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena

He was the court musician who condemned Anne Boleyn: but was Mark Smeaton telling the truth?

OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

OJ Simpson confers with lawyers during his murder trial

What the OJ Simpson trial revealed about modern America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes

Q&AWho was Schinderhannes and why is he known as the ‘German Robin Hood’?

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Newspaper ballad about highwaywoman Susan Higges

The real Renegade Nell? The bloody ballad of female highwaywoman Susan Higges

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An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of John Wilkes Booth

Why did John Wilkes Booth kill Abraham Lincoln? And how was he caught?

Sir Walter Raleigh, a portrait of the great favourite of Queen Elizabeth I

Q&AWhy was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?

Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English highwayman Dick Turpin is pictured astride his horse, leaping over a gate, as he flees his pursuers

The extraordinary legend of highwayman Dick Turpin

ConspiracyWho killed JFK?

An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen

General History

Traitor or FaithfulBritish history's most notorious treason cases

Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

Victorian murder scandalsWhat six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastMarshal Pétain: Vichy France in the dock. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Lucan with his future wife Veronica Duncan. He is in a suit and she's wearing a smart outfit.

Lord Lucan's disappearance

Jesse Plemons as lawman Tom White

Who was Tom White in Killers of the Flower Moon?

Actor Lily Gladstone (left) plays Mollie Burkhart

The real history behind Killers of the Flower Moon: author explains true story of Osage Nation

Ships in battle on the sea

General Early Modern

When pirates ruled Asia's waves

A purported portrait of Elizabeth Báthory as a young woman

General Early Modern

Elizabeth Báthory: a 17th-century 'serial killer'

A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The newly-completed Central Criminal Court in the City of London, known as the Old Bailey.

Historical Cold CasesThe Murder Of ‘Madame X’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Athénaïs de Montespan, one of the official mistresses of Louis XIV, was a suspect in a scandalous plot to murder the French king (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Affair of the Poisons: who plotted to kill King Louis XIV?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

JuneteenthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read