Overview :In the 1840s, the workhouse was the centre of Britain's response to poverty. This book tells the story of one such institution - Southwell W... Read More
Overview :A boarding house promised safety. Inside, people disappeared.In Sacramento, Dorothea Puente took in vulnerable tenants - elderly, disabled, ... Read More
Overview :In early nineteenth-century Leeds, fear was common and answers were scarce. Mary Bateman sold both.Branded the "Yorkshire Witch", she promis... Read More
Overview :When poisoned chocolates spread terror through Victorian Brighton, suspicion fell on no one - until it fell on Christiana Edmunds.Respectabl... Read More
Overview :In 1895, Bridget Cleary was killed by those closest to her.Convicted she had been taken by fairies and replaced by a changeling, her death h... Read More
Overview :On 5 November 1878, Ella Hearn was shot in her family home in Pocomoke City, Maryland. The accused was Lillian Duer-her closest companion. W... Read More
Overview :In London's working class district, the Forty Elephants, moved unseen. This all-female gang operated for decades with adept coordination and... Read More
Overview :Madame Restell was the most famous abortion provider in nineteenth-century America.She advertised openly in New York newspapers, built a luc... Read More
Overview :When Care Decides is a meticulously researched true-crime narrative that examines how trust, authority, and institutional silence enabled on... Read More