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

An illustration of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, fleeing from battle after attempting to unseat his Catholic uncle, King James II and VII, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685: your guide to the a duke's failed bid to overthrow his uncle, James II and VI

The Duke of Cumberland leans awat from two ghostly men, wearing white robes and wielding razor blades, as smoke rises around them

Royals on the stand: how Queen Charlotte’s son the Duke of Cumberland faced down a libel scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

The Gallows PoleThe true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

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Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe Hoxton Horror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Rose Wilkinson

William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The debtors’ exercise grounds at Newgate prison in 1809. The debtors’ prison was a feature of everyday life in 18th-century England (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Inside debtors’ prisons: what life was like for people jailed in Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting depicts Frederica, the bride- to-be of Frederick, Duke of York, meeting in-laws George III and Queen Charlotte for the first time

The scandals that rocked Queen Charlotte's court

A report about the murder from an edition of the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Despite gaining national press coverage, the case is largely forgotten today.

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe parents who never recovered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Burke and Hare

Burke and HareLisa Rosner on the pair's crime spree. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria

Assassinating Queen Victoria: the men who attempted to murder the monarch

An 1812 cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson depicts highwaymen in action in the days when travellers made for easy pickings for criminals (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson's General History. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Sophia Money's brother, Robert Henry Money, is believed to have been the murderer 'Robert Hicks Murray'

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe Money Murders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An artist’s impression of Frances Saunders printed in an edition of the Weekly Dispatch, in which she was incorrectly named ‘Mrs Francis’

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe strange case of 'Mr Francis'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from 'Le Petit Parisien', 1891.

Historical cold casesMurder in the year of the Ripper. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

Billy the KidThe Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

ConspiracyDid Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

The floating hell of prison hulks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the 'worst pirate of all time'

Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the "degradation" of Alfred Dreyfus during which his sword was snapped over a warrant officer’s knee (Photo by Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images)

The Dreyfus Affair: how France was divided over a miscarriage of justice

Historical cold casesThe mystery of the vanishing widow. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An unhappy looking woman on trial in a British Victorian court. From ‘The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper’ from 4th March 1882. ‘The Graphic’ was published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd as a rival to ‘Illustrated London News’. (Picture by GettyImages)

Historical cold cases with Nell DarbyThe mystery of Miss Lamond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Desk killers: the psychology of committing crimes against humanity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks

Protesters gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the 2003 Hutton inquiry into claims, broadcast on the BBC, that the case for war in Iraq had been “sexed up”.

BBC at 100Rocked by scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Herbert Rowse ArmstrongInnocent solicitor or guilty murderer?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.