The Solicitor Who Signed Other Lives
This is the wild true thing about a Victorian lawyer who swapped names like cufflinks and got everyone fooled - and classy about it, lowkey.Read More 
Hobart's Tea That Sent Her to the Gallows
A Tasmanian wife, corrosive sublimate in the cup, and a trial that turned small-town gossip into a public execution.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 
Stanfield Hall and the man who tried to rewrite his debts
A Norfolk house, a crooked plan, and a bloke whose impulse to solve cash problems went shockingly viral for 1848-this is messy, dramatic, actually wild.Read More 
Ikey Solomon Bought London's Goods
He ran the receiving end of a whole city kleptomania and made a polite fortune while the constables played catch up.Read More 
When an Electric Telegraph Tattled on a Murderer
A domestic spat, a cup of prussic acid, and the new-fangled telegraph making policemen look frighteningly competent.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 
George Appo: The Bowery's Smooth Thief
He had a laugh like a bribe and hands that understood pockets better than most people understood manners.Read More 
Tom Sayers, The Day England Went to Fisticuffs
A seaside scrape, a crowd gone mad, and two men trading leather while the papers did their teeth-gnash - classic theatre, darling.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 