Author Simon Farquhar dives into the grisly world of true crime and asks, why is murder so common at Christmas?

It is the summer of 1889, and the royal family is in crisis. It is well known in polite society, in the drawing rooms of the ...

ALAN WARREN is the author of the critically acclaimed Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat. He has been a fellow of the State Library of Victoria and has lectured in history at Monash University.

RUTH HERMAN has a career in PR and lecturing at university level. Now retired, she enjoys writing to make history engaging and accessible to the general reader. Her first book, The Incredibly Biased ...

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MICHAEL R. BAILEY is a railway historian who has undertaken projects for museums in England, Canada and Denmark. He writes and lectures (and occasionally acts as a TV consultant) and was a consultant ...

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'The Finest Feat of Arms' ...

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