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. One reason for this, so it…

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 in the county of Shropshire. The same night, his body was taken to the nearby church at Moreton…

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. …

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 to be executed. …

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…

On July 25th, 1905, Arthur Devereux stood trial for the crime of murder. It was alleged that he had poisoned his wife, Beatrice. It was also presumed that at the same time he had murdered his two-year-old children, twins Evelyn and Lawrence, although he was not tried for their murders…

On September 18th, 1634, the Reverend John Lothropp arrived at Plymouth in New England, with some 200 religious dissidents aboard The Griffin, a ship that had sailed from England. The passengers included several families who were deaf and whose future children had an impact on the life of the community…

History might have been very different if Violet had achieved her goal.