The Man Daniel Paul Schreber was a remarkable man. Born in Saxony in 1842, highly educated and very intelligent, he trained as a lawyer and was made a judge in the High Court at Dresden, North Germany, by the time he was 25 years old. In 1884 he sought election…

It was on the eleventh day of May With tears I now lament and say My bosom friend and loving wife I cut her tender thread of life Granville William Wheeler Medhurst was everyone’s idea of the country gentleman. Well educated, prosperous, happily married, surrounded by children he loved, socially…

After the ending of the regular Sunday worship at York Minster, on Sunday February 1st, 1829, worshippers left for their homes and the heavy church doors were shut and locked. Yet, one person remained. A hooded figure lurking in the cold, dark shadows. When all was completely quiet, the phantom-like…

The events you are about to read are true. They may not have happened as set out here, but they surely did happen.

How the tale began… In the year 1845, in the town of Bebington, which is on the Wirral near Liverpool, the marriage of Charles Turner with his bride, Mary Ann, was celebrated. It was reported that the marriage was not a happy one, with disagreements from the outset…

On the afternoon of November 22nd, 1774, Robert Clive — Lord Clive of India as he was commonly known — was found dead in the bathroom of his grand home at Walcot…

Richard Paternoster sat on his bed in the small cell-room allocated to him. He wanted to disturb no-one. He simply wanted to read quietly and educate himself. Eliza Lush, a woman who — in Paternosters’ elegant words — had “the remains of some personal attraction”, came and sat with him…

The date is March 24th, 1873. The place is Durham Gaol. The scene is the hanging gallery. From above, out of sight of the gallows, members of the Press are gathered. For weeks they have been pulsating with stories of the lady about…

Ballinasloe, in the Irish province of Connacht, is a town in the mid–western part of Ireland. Historically the area had high levels of poverty, population decline from potato famines, and from large scale emigration. Local unrest including riots and killings occurred over land reforms at the turn of the twentieth…