Esther Lack’s Most ‘Barbarous and Revolting Murder’
Infanticide is as shocking today as it was 200 years ago, but impressions of its perpetrators have evolved – most notably in the 1865 case of Esther Lack.
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The Rise and Fall of Nimrud
Before its untimely end this once great city was the centre of a vast and powerful civilisation.
Trafficking Culture
Archaeologists and criminologists are looking at ways to combat the illicit trade in antiquities.
Irma Grese and Female Concentration Camp Guards
The female guards at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück are less well known than their male counterparts, but they were no less brutal.
The Tragic Life of Charles Darwin’s Captain
Chiefly remembered as Darwin’s captain on HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy’s life was eventful – and ultimately tragic.
The She-Wolves of Jülich
Man-eating and menacing: stories about female werewolves in the sensationalist press expose a centuries-old fear of women.
A World Without Teenagers: Jihadi brides in Syria
Arriving in Syria, three London schoolgirls will find themselves in a ‘medieval’ world where the teenager is an unknown concept.
Inside the Anglo-Saxon Classroom
Schoolboys forget their books, lose their pens and laugh at dirty jokes. This was true even in the rigorous atmosphere of the Anglo-Saxon classroom.
The Origins of English Parliament
The English Parliament was purportedly founded on 20 January 1265. Why is this date so significant?
The US-Cuba Embargo Beyond the Cold War
Predating Castro’s Communist Revolution, the unequal US-Cuban power relationship stretches back to the turn of the 20th century.