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Skinning, slicing and roasting just a few of the blood-thirsty ways you could be executed in the ancient world

Jim Haynes, 75, from Moore Park, NSW, is fascinated with our remarkable history. Hes written and published 33 books on everything from yarns from the Gallipoli war, to great Australian scams, cons and rorts. His latest book Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia is out now.

Never was the chasm between rich and poor more stark than in the Regency era. Ian Mortimer chronicles a period in which the wealthiest gorged themselves on the fruits of Britain’s industrial might, while the working classes endured lives that were often nasty, brutish and short

Crusaders against true crime have been duly granted the next subject of their outrage. The Daily Mail’s new podcast ‘The Trial: Brianna Ghey’ has offered itself up as the latest in moral panic triggers. 

The Premier League have reportedly recommended to the independent commission into Evertons alleged breach of Profitability and Sustainability rules that the club be docked up to 12 points as punishment.

Land, animals, wood, forests and space itself was converted into a commodity that could be bought and sold. Fields were engrossed, land was enclosed…

Debtors’ prisons inflicted untold misery in the 18th-19th centuries, with people facing unlimited imprisonment if they could not pay off their debts

The Sessions Arts Club is a restaurant inside the Old Session House in Clerkenwell, a pale George III building where the criminals of Middlesex were once judged in splendour. It’s common for fine once-public buildings to become private buildings now: the old War Office on Whitehall will be, come summer, Raffles at the OWO. The

Last month, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a retrogressive bill that would allow the state’s death-row prisoners to be executed by firing squad. The bill’s proponents believe that a firing squad is a humane method to end a person’s life. Dr. Guillotine once said his procedure should be but a

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