Three recent books on Victorian crime and daily life stare across the uncanny valley between us and those strange folk tromping the British Isles 150 years ago in their crinoline and whalebone.

Victoria does not need a permit system for protests, says the state's new top cop, who concedes there has been a breakdown in ...

In The Dead Witness, Michael Sims presents stories from the early days of detective fiction, revisiting classics and introducing readers to a raft of lesser-known writers, many of them women.

(Inside Science) -- From the mid-19th through early 20th centuries, children arrested for crimes in Victorian and Edwardian England were much less likely to wind up back in jail than youthful ...

Hapless victims of crime are “corrupting” vulnerable criminals by making it too easy for them to stray from the straight and narrow path. This may not be a popular opinion now but it’s how ...

A doctor who took at least 10 lives in multiple countries? It sounds like the stuff of fiction – but Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was a very real figure whose crimes are retold in author Dean Jobb's book, ...

LUCY WORSLEY INVESTIGATES Sunday, July 27 at 8:00 pm  Historian Lucy Worsley Once Again Turns Detective, Following New Clues ...