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News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Robin Coles
750 episodes
3 days ago

Welcome to News of the Times!

Step into the shadowed alleyways and gaslit parlours of the 18th and 19th centuries with News of the Times — a meticulously curated journey through historical crime. Each episode draws from authentic reports and court records, bringing you the darkly fascinating tales that gripped Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Britain.

With over 500 episodes and counting, we explore true accounts of mischief, murder, and mayhem from days gone by — all delivered with a wry nod and a love for the curious corners of the past.

🕵️ For those with a taste for the peculiar, you may also enjoy our new side project: Volume 1: Slightly Unreliable Memoirs — a whimsical collection inspired by the lives (and occasional misadventures) of our research team. Think cravats, crumpets, and the occasional cactus on the lam. Intrigued? Find it here:
👉 https://ko-fi.com/s/b406f6f11e

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Welcome to News of the Times!

Step into the shadowed alleyways and gaslit parlours of the 18th and 19th centuries with News of the Times — a meticulously curated journey through historical crime. Each episode draws from authentic reports and court records, bringing you the darkly fascinating tales that gripped Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Britain.

With over 500 episodes and counting, we explore true accounts of mischief, murder, and mayhem from days gone by — all delivered with a wry nod and a love for the curious corners of the past.

🕵️ For those with a taste for the peculiar, you may also enjoy our new side project: Volume 1: Slightly Unreliable Memoirs — a whimsical collection inspired by the lives (and occasional misadventures) of our research team. Think cravats, crumpets, and the occasional cactus on the lam. Intrigued? Find it here:
👉 https://ko-fi.com/s/b406f6f11e

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News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Stalked by Her Brother-in-Law: The Christmas Murder That Shook Post-War Britain | Liverpool, 1918
Stalked by Her Brother-in-Law: The Christmas Murder That Shook Post-War Britain | Liverpool, 1918 News of the Times | Episode 595 |1918 As Britain celebrated the end of the Great War, one young Liverpool widow was facing a danger far closer to home. This week, we step into December 1918, a moment when church bells rang for peace, soldiers returned to broken households, and thousands of war widows tried to rebuild lives reshaped by loss. But for Mary Ellen Rooney, a 32-year-old widow raising ...
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3 days ago
37 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Murder on the Winter Road: A Christmas Killing in Ballinrobe | True Crime 1880
Murder on the Winter Road: A Christmas Killing in Ballinrobe | True Crime 1880 News of the Times | Episode 594 | 1880 A Christmas walk home… a dark boreen outside Ballinrobe… and two figures lying in wait. Tonight we return to County Mayo, Ireland, 1880, for a chilling winter murder that stunned a rural community and left questions hanging over the snow-covered road for generations. This is the story of Peter Mullen, a small farmer whose final journey took him through family quarrels, a myst...
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5 days ago
46 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
THE WHITELEY MURDER (1907) — The Crime That Shook Edwardian Britain
THE WHITELEY MURDER (1907) — The Crime That Shook Edwardian Britain News of the Times | Episode 593 | 1907 In January 1907, William Whiteley — London’s famous “Universal Provider” and the man who transformed British shopping — was shot dead inside his own department store. The killer? A well-dressed young man who calmly announced he was Whiteley’s illegitimate son. What followed was one of the most sensational murder trials of the Edwardian age: a story of hidden relationships, vast wealth,...
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1 week ago
47 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Wardrobe Murder: The Grim Discovery in 1889 Bury
The Wardrobe Murder: The Grim Discovery in 1889 Bury News of the Times | Episode 592| 1889 A missing businessman. A manager with too many stories. A wardrobe that no one was meant to open. In 1889 Bury, Lancashire, a routine visit to a bustling Bolton Street furniture shop ended in one of the most shocking Victorian murder discoveries ever recorded. Behind drawn blinds, shifted furniture, and a locked cupboard with a missing key, police found a scene that stunned even seasoned detectives. ...
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1 week ago
1 hour 1 minute

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Christmas Execution No One Tried to Stop | True Crime 1898
The Christmas Execution No One Tried to Stop | True Crime 1898 News of the Times | Episode 591 | 1898 In today’s episode, we travel to Bugsworth, Derbyshire, where the brutal murder of Hannah Cotton shocked Victorian reporters… but what stunned them even more was this: When her husband John Cotton was sentenced to hang — just four days before Christmas — no one asked for clemency. No neighbours. No friends. No anti-capital-punishment campaigners. Not even the canal community who had known hi...
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1 week ago
48 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Clergyman Who Hid His Wife’s Murder: The Shocking Case of Rev. Selby Watson | True Crime 1871
The Clergyman Who Hid His Wife’s Murder: The Shocking Case of Rev. Selby Watson | True Crime 1871 News of the Times | Episode 590 |1871 London 1871 A quiet Stockwell street. A respected clergyman. A locked room… and a truth no one wished to imagine. In October 1871, Reverend John Selby Watson — scholar, headmaster, and a man thought incapable of violence — calmly told his servant that his wife had “gone out of town.” What followed was one of the most chilling domestic murders of the Victor...
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2 weeks ago
57 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Two Killers, One Scaffold: The December Double Hanging of 1911
Two Killers, One Scaffold: The December Double Hanging of 1911 News of the Times | Episode 589 | 1911 On a cold December morning in 1911, the bell at Strangeways Gaol tolled across Manchester. Inside, two very different men walked the same final corridor — strangers in life, now bound together by the narrow platform of a double scaffold. One was a jealous, violent husband; the other a quiet young labourer who claimed he never meant to kill. Their crimes were months apart, their tempers and h...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 3 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Ivy Inn Murder: A Single Wound and a Vanishing Killer | True Crime 1891
The Ivy Inn Murder: A Single Wound and a Vanishing Killer | True Crime 1891 News of the Times | Episode 588 | 1891 A shocking Victorian crime in which a trusted 16-year-old servant was killed in broad daylight… and her killer vanished into the hills of Huddersfield. What followed was a frantic manhunt, a wrongful arrest, mass public hysteria, and finally, a confession overheard in a prison infirmary. This episode unravels the full story — from the moment Catherine Dennis was fou...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 7 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Essex Poisoner: Mary May & the Five-Year Hunt for Britain’s Husband Killers
The Essex Poisoner: Mary May & the Five-Year Hunt for Britain’s Husband Killers News of the Times | Episode 587 | 1848 One quiet Essex village. One determined woman. And a trail of death so shocking it forced Victorian police to investigate an entire county. Today we uncover the chilling case of Mary May, the Essex wife whose actions in 1848 sparked Britain’s first major hunt for domestic poisoners. What began as a single suspicious death soon expanded into rumours of a murder ring, buri...
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3 weeks ago
56 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Sheffield Poisoning Case – The Artist, the Housekeeper and the Fatal Fowl (1881)
The Sheffield Poisoning Case – The Artist, the Housekeeper and the Fatal Fowl (1881) News of the Times | Episode 586 |1881 A quiet December dinner in Victorian Sheffield ends in horror — and a respected artist whispers his final words: “I am poisoned.” In today’s investigation, we unravel the 1881 case of Thomas Skinner, a brilliant Sheffield craftsman and etcher whose sudden collapse after a simple meal of fowl and onion stuffing sparked one of the most controversial poisoning mysteries of ...
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 11 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Abergavenny Christmas Massacre (1175) — The True Story Behind a Medieval Betrayal
The Abergavenny Christmas Massacre (1175) — The True Story Behind a Medieval Betrayal News of the Times | Episode 585 | 1175 Step into the frozen winter of 1175, when a Christmas peace gathering at Abergavenny Castle turned into one of the most shocking betrayals in medieval Britain. This is the real story behind a massacre so infamous that historians believe it helped inspire Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding. In this episode, we uncover: • William de Braose, the marcher lord with a score to se...
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3 weeks ago
32 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Wife Killer of Watchfield: The Brutal Case of John Carter (1893)
The Wife Killer of Watchfield: The Brutal Case of John Carter (1893) News of the Times | Episode 584 | 1893 In 1893, the quiet Berkshire hamlet of Watchfield discovered a horror hiding in plain sight. Rhoda Carter — a young wife with no reason to run — vanished overnight. Her husband, John Carter, insisted she’d gone to tend her pregnant sister. But every part of his story began to crumble. A locked washhouse. A fire burning far too hot for a July night. A nine-year-old boy woken by thuds, c...
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4 weeks ago
38 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Kidsgrove Tragedy: Murder, Madness, and the Man Who Vanished Into Himself”
The Kidsgrove Tragedy: Murder, Madness & the Vanished Mind | Staffordshire, 1911 News of the Times | Episode 582 |1911 In October 1911, the quiet mining town of Kidsgrove was shaken to its core. Inside a secluded villa, three people — a widow, her four-year-old daughter, and their 16-year-old servant — were found brutally murdered. No forced entry. No screams. Just silence… until an eight-year-old child came running for help. The prime suspect? Karl Kramer — a German labourer wit...
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1 month ago
1 hour 1 minute

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Yarmouth’s Darkest Day Since the Plague | The 1845 Bridge Disaster
Yarmouth’s Darkest Day Since the Plague | The 1845 Bridge Disaster News of the Times | Episode 581 | 1845 What began as a light-hearted Victorian spectacle — a clown in a tub drawn by four geese — became one of the worst civilian disasters in British history. In 1845, hundreds gathered on Great Yarmouth’s suspension bridge to witness a novelty act. Within minutes, the bridge collapsed, sending a crowd — mostly women and children — plunging into the River Bure. Nearly 100 people lost their ...
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1 month ago
53 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Murder in Uniform: The Death of William Glass and the Hanging of Inspector Montgomery
Murder in Uniform: The Death of William Glass and the Hanging of Inspector Montgomery News of the Times | Episode 580 | [1871 - 1873 🔍 A Victorian bank clerk found butchered. £1,600 in notes vanished. And standing at the centre of the storm? A decorated police inspector with debts, secrets... and a very damp coat. In 1871, the quiet Irish town of Newtownstewart was shattered by a murder so brutal — and so unexpected — it dominated headlines across the Empire. But when the evidence began to...
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1 month ago
1 hour 2 minutes

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The Ardlamont Mystery: Murder, Money, and the Missing Man
The Ardlamont Mystery: Murder, Money, and the Missing Man News of the Times | Episode 579 | 1893 Scotland, 1893 — A young aristocrat lies dead on a hunting estate. His tutor claims it was a tragic accident. But as investigators dig deeper, a tangled web of insurance policies, disappearing witnesses, and suspicious identities begins to unravel. 🔍 Who was the enigmatic "Edward Scott"? 💼 Why was a life insurance policy taken out just days before the death? 🧠 And what did the famed Dr Jo...
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1 month ago
1 hour 2 minutes

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1631Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode
Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode News of the Times | Episode 579 | 1631 In 1630s County Durham, the dead didn’t just whisper… they testified. This is the gothic true crime story of Anne Walker — a young servant girl who vanished, only for her ghost to return, describe her murder, name her killers, and send shockwaves through a superstitious society. Incredibly, the courts listened. And a conviction followed. In an era before fingerpr...
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1 month ago
36 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
A Most Inconvenient Pregnancy: Class, Murder, and the Doddinghurst Tragedy of 1850
A Most Inconvenient Pregnancy: Class, Murder, and the Doddinghurst Tragedy of 1850 News of the Times | Episode 577 | 1850 Step into the shadows of rural England, where a quiet field near a stile becomes the setting for a grim discovery. A young woman is found face-down in the grass. She was pregnant. And someone wanted her silence — permanent. As whispers ripple through the small 1850s community of Doddinghurst, a troubling picture emerges: a man with much to lose, a secret love affair, and...
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1 month ago
56 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
The Murder of Vera Page: A Case That Science Couldn't Solve
The Murder of Vera Page: A Case That Science Couldn't Solve News of the Times | Episode 576 | 1931 In 1931, the disappearance of 10-year-old Vera Page sent shockwaves through Hammersmith, West London. When her body was discovered days later, concealed in a garden mere yards from her home, public outrage erupted — and police turned to their most famous forensic expert, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, to help secure a conviction. Confident in his findings, Spilsbury offered precise testimony on ...
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1 month ago
1 hour 6 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Murder on Wimbledon Common: The Fireside Poker Killing | 1917 True Crime
Murder on Wimbledon Common: The Fireside Poker Killing | 1917 True Crime News of the Times | Episode 575 | 1917 A quiet house. A brutal assault. And a killer hiding in plain sight. In November 1917, wartime London was still reeling from Zeppelin raids and rations — but nothing prepared the residents of Wimbledon Common for the horror inside Winkfield Lodge. When a maid opened the bedroom door that morning, she found her employer, Captain Edward Tighe, barely clinging to life — his skull shat...
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1 month ago
45 minutes

News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime

Welcome to News of the Times!

Step into the shadowed alleyways and gaslit parlours of the 18th and 19th centuries with News of the Times — a meticulously curated journey through historical crime. Each episode draws from authentic reports and court records, bringing you the darkly fascinating tales that gripped Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Britain.

With over 500 episodes and counting, we explore true accounts of mischief, murder, and mayhem from days gone by — all delivered with a wry nod and a love for the curious corners of the past.

🕵️ For those with a taste for the peculiar, you may also enjoy our new side project: Volume 1: Slightly Unreliable Memoirs — a whimsical collection inspired by the lives (and occasional misadventures) of our research team. Think cravats, crumpets, and the occasional cactus on the lam. Intrigued? Find it here:
👉 https://ko-fi.com/s/b406f6f11e