1818: An inquisitive child in Clerkenwell makes an alarming discovery.
human interest
The murder trial of Robert Hallam
1731: The trial of Robert Hallam for the murder of his heavily pregnant wife Jane who was thrown from a window
The death of an orphan chimney sweep in Somers Town
The plight of London’s chimney sweep apprentices.
A prisoner dies of starvation in Tothill-fields bridewell
The death of John Burden appals the coroner.
1817: Poverty and distress leads to tin miner’s death in a field
The suicide of a Cornishman and the grisly fate of his body.
Regency medicine: Pickling a female head
Regency medicine, 1817: The Lord Mayor helps a sailor when his mother’s head goes missing after she dies in St Thomas’s hospital.