The brutal murders by Jack the Ripper had terrorised the murky slums of the Whitechapel district in east London in the autumn ...

Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were the women ...

We're back! With 2024's fan-voted round-ups out the way - that's both albums and songs, thank you very much - we can set our sights on the year ahead, and a world of new possibilities with bands ...