As the traffic speeds along the busy Bayswater Road, to the north of Hyde Park, the cars, buses and trucks pass a line of tall white-walled houses set back behind a garden. They are part of a gated […]
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There are many curious stories to be found in the pages of the 19th century newspapers. All types of human activity are to be found there, from the antics of William Onions, The East End Poet, to the […]
Read ArticleThe Marquess of Waterford was a notorious hell raiser in the 1830s, and his escapades kept the newspapers fed with copy on several occasions. He was also a contender for having been the original Spring Heeled Jack, one […]
Read ArticleThroughout the 19th century, numerous accounts of ghosts appearing in all parts of the country were reported in the newspapers of the age. Some apparitions’, such as the Plaistow ghost, were proved to be nothing more than mass […]
Read ArticleThere is a great deal of commentary on the Police investigation into the Whitechapel murders. It is also well documented that, at the height of the Jack the Ripper scare, numerous amateur detectives head out onto the streets […]
Read ArticleWelcome to our latest quiz. It’s March, it’s 2024, and I hope that those little grey cells are simply buzzing to get down and try your hands – or should that be minds – at our latest challenge. […]
Read ArticleThere are some interesting examples of people commenting about things via social media when the poster has followed a hunch as opposed to bothering to do some research in order to establish whether or not their “hunch” is […]
Read ArticleThere can be little doubt that, when you sat down to eat in Victorian London – and especially in the poorer parts of the metropolis – you quite literally took your life in your hands; or, to be […]
Read ArticleBrowsing the 19th century newspapers, you often come across horrific cases of terrible murders as well as of other crimes. Some of the most horrible of the cases are those crimes in which a parent murdered a child. […]
Read ArticleOne of the most tragic, shocking and terrible discoveries that can be found in Victorian newspaper accounts concerning life in the East End of London in the 19th century, is just how many people died of starvation. Indeed, […]
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