In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...

It most certainly was for a pair of soon-to-be newlyweds who boarded separate trains to Greenwich in the spring of 1889, just five hours after the bride's divorce had been finalized by a judge in New ...

On August 13, 1964, killers Peter Anthony Allan and Gwynne Owen Evans were simultaneously hanged at Walton Prison and ...

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

Dating from 1820, the site offers a glimpse into the dark history of 19th-century crime and retribution. You can peek inside the poky cells and wander through narrow corridors, with costumed ...

Here is the true story of 'The Devil in the White City', Martin Scorsese's next film with Leonardo DiCaprio about H H Holmes.

When bestselling author Elly Griffiths signed off on a high last year from her long-running and critically acclaimed Ruth ...

The recent whirlwind of Trump administration foreign policy measures―many reversing those of the Biden administration―illustrates the fact that Americans have sharply different opinions about their ...

In a bid to fix interbank rates to within a few basis points, which leads to excess liquidity, external instability and brings a second sovereign default closer, Sri Lanka's central bank has claimed ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs.

After 137 years of mystery, we may finally know the true identity of the killer who terrorized the streets of London in 1888.