At the last gasp

Strange murder mysterie s from times gone by

The statistics are terrifying. The burial entries in most parish registers from the 18th and 19th centuries show an appallingly high rate of infant and child mortality. Looking at some registers recen

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

A MODERN HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION