Kate Townsend's Saloon and the Very Bad Night
She ran a saloon where brass flowed, cards lied, and the wrong sort of attention turned a lively room into a crime scene.Read More 
Oxford Fired At The Queen And Looked Proper Gormless
A young man with a brace of pistols, the royal carriage, and a courtroom that decided he was daft enough to be kept out of sight.Read More 
Michael Barrett and the Clerkenwell Blast
A bad idea, a huge hole in a prison wall and a mob that fancied itself judge, jury and sock-washer.Read More 
Madeleine Smith's Sticky Letters and a Very Bad Cup
A heiress-in-training, a French clerk, secret letters, arsenic whispers and a Glasgow jury that could not make up its mind.Read More 
John Thom's Sir William Farce
A wandering charlatan called himself Sir William Courtenay, gathered the poor, and died leading a tiny, very tragic revolt in Bossenden Wood.Read More 
Jane Cakebread: The Drunk Who Wouldn't Be Shushed
She was arrested more times than a postman delivers letters and treated by magistrates like a public nuisance with a heart, a gin habit, and a fierce knack for chaos.Read More 
Stead Bought a Girl and Went to Gaol
He bought Eliza Armstrong to expose a rotten trade and ended up serving time for the very stunt that made the nation furious.Read More 
Broadhead's Blasts: Sheffield's Union Men Who Meant Business
They smashed, burned and planted bombs to frighten scabs and employers, and a bloke called William Broadhead ended up at the sharp end of the law.Read More 
Farrington's Gin Den: A Bermondsey Circus
One woman, a little backroom still, and a parade of sleep-soaked blokes who made her shop a kind of accidental refuge.Read More 
How Charles Peace Sold Stolen Silver and Got Too Clever
He nicked the silver, hid it in a parlour, and sold it to a bloke who thought he was sharper than he was - and then the music stopped.Read More 