Best plan is to have a horse ready and waiting.
18th and early 19th century indoor winter scenes
Heart- and hearth-warming
The Neglected Daughter
Left out in the cold after transgressing.
A Right Royal Scandal: Two Marriages that Changed History by Joanne Major and Sarah Murden
One family. Two astonishing scandals.
The scandalous love triangle of Maria Foote, William Berkeley and Joseph ‘Pea Green’ Hayne
Everyone just lied and lied.
Horace Cotton: The extraordinary Ordinary of Newgate
Humane or a venal, unfeeling monster?
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Sophia Edney
Aged 23, hanged at Ilchester, for the poisoning murder of her much older husband John.
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Betty Rowland
There was a riot at her execution in Liverpool.
36 cases of fraud committed by women, tried at the Old Bailey 1797 to 1837
A look at the various criminal methods women used to obtain goods and money under false pretences.
Elopement in high life: Anne Wellesley and Lord Charles Bentinck
Guest bloggers Sarah Murden and Joanne Major on the elopement of Anne Wellesley, the wife of Sir William Abdy, and Lord Charles Bentinck in 1815.
Madame de Genlis: a most unusual educator
Geri Walton contributes a guest post about educationist Madame de Genlis, gouvernour to the children of the Duke of Chartres in the 18th century.
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Harriet Tarver
Hanged in Gloucester in 1836 for the poisoning murder of her husband Thomas.
A visit from Madame Gilflurt: The mystery of the Duke of Cumberland’s valet
Catherine Curzon (aka Madame Gilflurt) pays a visit to tell us about the shocking attempt on the life of the Duke of Cumberland…
12 facts about prisons and punishment in the 18th century: A guest post by Anna M. Thane
Fascinating guest post by Anna M. Thane
A broadside on Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape from the dissecting table
Or did she?
The bloody career of Maria Theresa Phipoe
The end of an extraordinary life of crime
The confession of Mary Voce, who inspired George Eliot
She became Hetty Sorrel in Adam Bede
Gangs of Market Drayton: Ann Harris (1828)
Looks lovely but hides a dark past
Social climbing: Regency boarding schools
My guest post at geriwalton.com
Charlotte Newman and Mary Ann James
Hanged in 1818 for forgery
The end of Frances Thompson, a dealer in false banknotes
Fake bobs, shans and scrieves did for her.
Susannah Holroyd: Serial killer
Or was she?
Ann Hurle’s story: The execution of “a young woman of education”
It’s a pity she didn’t use her talents for something else.
The birth of the pound note and the fate of Sarah Bailey
She was up against a powerful opponent.
