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Crime and punishment

Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Irregulars. From left to right: Prince Leopold (Harrison Osterfield), Jessie (Darci Shaw), Bea(Thaddea Graham), Spike (McKell David), and Billy (Jojo Macari)

The Irregulars: the real history behind Netflix’s supernatural Sherlock spinoff

Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Edalji and the Great Wyrley killings: a real-life Sherlock Holmes mystery

Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFK. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

The assassination of Julius Caesar

What if…Julius Caesar had not been assassinated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture depicting the Cato Street conspirators

To kill the cabinet: the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820

Dr Jenna Dittmar, who has been studying medieval skeletons, reveals what her findings can tell us about injuries and violence in the era. (Image by Getty Images)

Fatal accidents and violent injuries in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This image from the Nibelungenlied manuscript shows Pilgrim welcoming Kriemhild, a fictional character described as his neice in the text (Photo by Alamy)

The forged texts of the Middle Ages: why Europe's holy men turned to counterfeiting

The hunt for Caesar’s killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon resigns

Which US presidents have been impeached? A brief history of presidential impeachment

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Queen Victoria

The Victorians and the British Empire: a brief guide and timeline

Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Living in fear: the dangers of Victorian London

Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

Georg Elser: the man who nearly assassinated Hitler

This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

Surviving the gallows: the Georgian hangings that didn't go to plan

A policewoman gives directions to tourists in London in the 1920s.

“Sherlock Holmes in skirts”: the world's first policewomen

Your guide to...debtors' prisons

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

The arrest of Guy Fawkes. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Alternate history: what if… the gunpowder plot had succeeded?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An ‘ordinary’ Nazi. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn’s final battle: Tracy Borman reveals Henry VIII's final 'kindness'

A portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I

Walter Ralegh: “The rankest traitor in all England?”

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

Your guide to...transportation to Australia

Evil May Day

Flames and violence: the Evil May Day Riots that shook Tudor London

The battle of Dover, 24 August 1217, (image c1880). (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe's unholiest holy men