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 
Ferdinand Ward and the Jolly Ledger
A bright young financier, a former president's good name, and a ledger that preferred fiction to figures.Read More 
How John Murrell Tried to Make the Mississippi Pay
He claimed a crime empire on the river, the papers went wild, and towns reacted like someone sent bad receipts to their front door.Read More 
How They Lamped an Opera House
An American opera night went proper pear-shaped when actor loyalties turned the stalls into absolute scenes and the militia had to show up.Read More 
Patsy Conroy's Smooth Hands
He ran a waterfront crew that could lift a man's watch while he thought he was counting freight, and oh did I love the audacity.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 woman they dragged to the scaffold
There was a tiny house, a missing child, a town that could not resist a spectacle, and one woman who became the final headline of a public era.Read More 
The Mad Surgeon Who Loved Dictionaries and Shot a Man
A peculiar London killing that produced a criminal lunatic, a very large lexicon habit, and correspondence that rescued a work of national ambition.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 
Somerset Night-Raid That Ate the Papers
This is a tiny, filthy, and somehow theatrical Victorian land-grab where hungry men, a pearly dawn and one lethargic magistrate weaponised chaos into headlines.Read More 