By 1889, jack the ripper’s grisly murders had sparked terror across london. so when a woman’s headless, mutilated body was found beneath railway arches near the thames, a coded alert was dispatched to all metropolitan police divisions: “another whitechapel.” but her killer wasn’t jack...

Victorian crimes against women have unsettling parallels with the present, says Lucy Worsley

Railways gave criminals a vast pool of people from which to target victims - and at the same time offered a new, fast means of escape and a chance to remain anonymous. TONY STREETER and GEORGE DENT don their deerstalkers and head back in time…

In the last decades of the 12th century, the townsfolk of Annan in the Scottish borders were terrified by a sinister nocturnal revenant that stalked the dark byways. “Each night his corpse, driven by

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The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh

BBC Two and BBC iPlayer Concludes 30 and 31 December On 10 April 1912, RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton to New York on its maiden voyage. The liner, operated by the White Star Line, was said to b