Crime and punishment

A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

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Britain’s secret wartime prison . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An illustration of a public execution at Newgate, London, late 18th century. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Library A deadly obsession in Victorian London

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History quiz – prison escapes and the princes in the Tower . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Criminals of the Blitz: how the German bombings created a golden age of crime

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

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Q&A Could you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?

Incent's House as it stands today on the Berkhamsted High Street. (Creative Commons)

The hunt for the Tudor hitman

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Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

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