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Face-to-face with a murderer
The truth behind the death mask of Robert Marley, a notorious burglar, who murdered a jeweller's assistant during a burglary in London in 1856.
 • Dr Angela Buckley
Studying lumps and bumps
In the Victorian period, criminologists made plaster masks of executed criminals to learn about human tendencies to commit crime and violence. Behind…
 • Dr Angela Buckley
Inside The Detective’s Notebook
Monthly briefing for founding members
 • Dr Angela Buckley
Murder maps
The evolution of crime scene sketches and plans
 • Dr Angela Buckley
'Getting the boat'
A brief history of penal transportation
 • Dr Angela Buckley
The Baby in the Canal
The search for the killer of little Maud Hirst
 • Dr Angela Buckley
The Blackley child murder
The tragic story of a baby found in the woods
 • Dr Angela Buckley
Inside The Detective’s Notebook
Monthly briefing for founding members
 • Dr Angela Buckley
The ‘quiet’ investigations of Inspector Pearce
An often overlooked but groundbreaking detective
 • Dr Angela Buckley
The Detective's Notebook
The Detective's Notebook
True crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science.
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Murder, Misdeeds and Microhistory
Murder, Misdeeds and Microhistory
Helen Sunter
The Herstorian
The Herstorian
Kaye Jones
Notes from a Crypt Hunter
Notes from a Crypt Hunter
Dawn Willoughby
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Secondhand Bookmarks
Suzie Grogan
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