Wainewright and the Foxglove Fable
He painted beautiful pictures, forged elegant signatures and left a smell of foxglove wherever he went.Read More 
Bloody Monday Louisville: When an Election Turned Nasty
On August 6 1855 Louisville found out mob rule tastes vile and leaves a cuppa stone cold.Read More 
Lambing Flat: Miners Gone Proper Mad
In 1861 Australian diggers turned on Chinese workmates and the goldfield became an ugly theatre of fists and fear.Read More 
The Day the Motor Took a Life at Crystal Palace
A summer demonstration turned grim when an early motorcar struck Bridget Driscoll and Victorian Britain discovered there were downsides to progress.Read More 
The Cellar That Counterfeited Confidence
A grubby basement, clever dies and a ragged band of workmen who made coins so convincing even a magistrate blinked.Read More 
Mary Ann Cotton: The Quiet House That Bought Brass
She turned kitchen scraps and sickroom sympathy into insurance payouts, and the bairns paid the price.Read More 
Ballarat's Bogus Sovereigns and a Very Shabby Shine
A gold rush town found fake sovereigns so convincing they made honest miners feel like they've been sold a pup.Read More 
Charles Cora Shot a Marshal and San Francisco Lost Its Mind
A gambler, a saloon, a shot in the street and a city that decided public justice could be done with a rope and a wagging finger.Read More 
The Orange Parade That Tore Manhattan
July 12 1871, an Orange Order march exploded into street warfare and New York learned how thin civility could be.Read More 
The Skeleton Army That Tore Up Worthing
A seaside town, mock bands, and a mob that treated hymn-singing like a provocation.Read More 