Historical men and women

Charles Peace was a notorious 19 th century murderer. He was once described as ‘the greatest and most naturally gifted criminal England has...

  Jonathan Wild was a particularly nasty piece of work, operating on both sides of the law in early 18 th -century London. He was responsibl...

There were two sides to the character of the Reverend Dr William Dodd. Born in 1729 he became an Anglican clergyman, a scholar, a Cambr...

Jenny Diver was born in about 1650 and died on the gallows in 1710 after a lifetime of thievery, mostly in London, in which her cleve...

The maxim that a fool and his money are soon parted is never more true than when the method used for doing the parting is a fraudule...

25 th January 1947 was the day on which Al Capone died at the age of 48, from a stroke complicated by pneumonia and syphilis. He...