The King's Madness at Kew
Kew Palace is associated with severe periods of George III's illness, particularly in 1804 and 1810–11, when the king's behaviour created a crisis of government. Contemporaries…
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2034 articlesElizabeth I's Last Night at Richmond
Elizabeth I died at Richmond Palace on 24 March 1603 after a reign of forty-four years. Accounts of her final days describe a queen reluctant to take to her bed and sitting for…
Mitre Square and the Night of the Double Event
In Mitre Square early on 30 September 1888 the body of Catherine Eddowes was found, the second woman killed during the so-called “double event.” The square lay within the City…
Mary Jane Kelly's Room on Dorset Street
Mary Jane Kelly was murdered on 9 November 1888 in a small room in Miller's Court off Dorset Street. Unlike the other canonical victims, she was indoors, and the crime-scene…
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders
In December 1811 two households were murdered near Ratcliffe Highway, provoking fear of random violence and an extraordinary London manhunt. The suspected sailor John Williams…
Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Cellar
Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen lived with his wife Cora at 39 Hilldrop Crescent. After her disappearance in 1910 he sailed for Canada with Ethel Le Neve disguised as a boy, but the…
The Camden Town Murder Nobody Saw
Walter Sickert titled a painting and group of works “The Camden Town Murder” after Emily Dimmock's death in 1907, but his sombre interiors are not depictions of the crime itself.…
The Bermondsey Horror
In 1849 Frederick and Maria Manning murdered Patrick O'Connor and concealed his body beneath the kitchen flagstones of a house in Bermondsey. They fled separately, were captured,…
The House of Horror at Rillington Place
10 Rillington Place was both the scene of John Christie's crimes and the centre of one of twentieth-century Britain's most disturbing miscarriages of justice. Timothy Evans was…
The Horror at Cranley Gardens
In 1983 a blocked drain at 23 Cranley Gardens brought a plumber who discovered human remains. Resident Dennis Nilsen confessed to a series of murders of men committed first at…
The Krays and the Blind Beggar
The Blind Beggar entered criminal history on 9 March 1966 when Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell in the saloon bar. The killing belonged to a struggle between London criminal groups…
The Siege of Sidney Street
In January 1911 armed revolutionaries linked to Latvian underground groups were trapped by police in a Sidney Street house after a jewellery robbery and the murder of officers at…
