Tag: Murder AudioTudor trials: Confessions from the Star ChamberTuesday 15 August 2017Medieval records specialist Euan Roger gives us a taste of the kinds of disputes...AudioDid she kill him? Addiction, adultery and arsenic in Victorian BritainFriday 22 August 2014Florence Chandler was in her early 20s when she married much older James Maybrick,...AudioWriter of the month: A very British murderFriday 8 August 2014A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley’s account of a national obsession – a...AudioJohn Reginald Christie: a study in sources, The National Archives and beyondFriday 18 October 2013This talk examines and evaluates the sources for the study of the life and...AudioResearching Mr Briggs’ Hat: an account of Britain’s first railway murderFriday 27 January 2012The 1864 murder of Thomas Briggs in his first-class railway carriage is investigated through...AudioConstance Emily Kent: nightdresses, breast flannels and child murderFriday 11 February 2011In the summer of 1860, in a well-to-do country house in sleepy Road Hill,...AudioBurial clubs – the unfriendly societiesThursday 11 June 2009Friendly Societies were popular in the 19th Century, and were regulated by law. Audrey...