Victorian crime

WITH MORE MULTIPLE MURDERERS PER CAPITA THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET, THE US HAS EARNED A BLOODY REPUTATION AS GROUND ZERO FOR SERIAL KILLERS

Thousands of workers stepping off their morning train has become an enduring image of the railway. But the custom of commuting has constantly evolved, as CHRISTIAN WOLMAR reports

Women hurled rotten vegetables and the contents of chamber pots from upstairs windows. Paving stones were prised loose to block the roads, while an overturned builder’s lorry became a barricade. Child

From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague

From local estates to the school gates, scaremongering about asylum seekers has caused a dangerous rise in far-right sentiment

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors