Author: Stephen Wade

In 1914, when the call came for Kitchener's new army to be recruited, Leeds was at the heart of the West Riding conurbation, where many men joined ...

In December 1903, a group of gentlemen friends met for dinner at the Carlton Club. They had one great interest in common: a fascination with crimes...

Harry de Windt (1856-1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature...

Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but histo...

Curious Tales from Lincolnshire is filled with hilarious and surprising examples of folklore, eccentrics, historical and literary events, and popul...

Criminal River explores the social and legal history of the police on the River Thames, from the founding of the Thames Marine Police in 1798 to th...

Bert Hannam was a dapper, charismatic figure in the Scotland Yard of the post-war years. As a young sergeant he made his name in London, and soon ...

Tyranny and the Lash offers a rare insight into the world of crime and punishment. It investigates the changing definitions of criminality that occ...

The enduring legacy of those who said No. January 2016 marks the centenary of the Military Service Act, which brought in conscription after the la...

London, 1890: A group of seven amateur criminologists based at the Septimus Club in Piccadilly set out to investigate a series of mysterious crimes...