Tag Archives: Crime

Is eating people always wrong?

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

In my 3rd and final post on this wacky world of Victorian legal cases related to murders, we travel back to September 1884 in Falmouth on the SW coast of England when three rather emaciated sailors disembarked from their ship, … Continue reading →

Posted in history | Tagged Cannibal, Crime, Murder, Victorian | 1 Comment

The terrible murder of Fanny Adams which gives us a phrase we still use today.

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

Last I wrote about the attempted murder of Victorian Prime Minister Robert Peel that led to the concept that people suffering from extreme mental illness, may not be responsible for their acts. This was a time of great reform in … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life | Tagged Crime, Fanny Adams, Murder, Sweet FA, Victorian | 2 Comments

Did a lunatic try to kill a Prime Minister Robert Peel or was it all a cover story?

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

Most people know Sir Robert Peel as the man who founded the first modern police force in the world, London’s Metropolitan Police. It must have been a good move as he went on to become Prime Minister, living in the … Continue reading →

Posted in history, London | Tagged Assassination, Crime, Daniel M'Naghten, Edward Drummond, Insanity, Murder, Robert Peel, Westminster, Whitehall | 2 Comments

Mind The Gap – Someone pushed me under a London Underground Train!

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

If not your worst nightmare, it’s probably one that ranks near the very top of the worst nightmare list but on Friday morning, I got pushed and fell down the gap between a London Underground tube train and the platform. … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, London, News | Tagged Accidents, Crime, Death, Injury, Knighthood, London Underground, Mind The Gap, The Tube | 26 Comments

Station Squabble – A fist fight between two London mice!

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

You don’t have to go to far on my blog to find some of the tough and murky history of East London. Whatever else you have to look out for in the East-End, even I had presumed the mice and … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, London, Photography, Travel | Tagged Crime, Farringdon, London, London Underground, Mice, Natural History Museum, wildlife | Leave a comment

Modern day Grave Robbers who stole from my mothers grave

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Stephen Liddell

I wasn’t going to write anything today; I’ve had a chest infection which turned into bronchitis and then manifested itself into something like pneumonia for the last 10-12 weeks. I have been out of the house only a handful of … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Religion and Faith | Tagged All Saints Church, Crime, Death, Flowers, Leavesden, Mourning, sadness, Stealing, Theft, Thieves, Watford | 11 Comments

James Bulger 25 years on – the crime that shocked the nation.

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Stephen Liddell

25 years ago this week, a crime shook Britain and the city of Liverpool in particular with such revulsion that no-one who was alive at the time will ever forget. It was a crime where society sank to a new … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, News, Opinion | Tagged Bootle, Crime, James Bulger, Jon Venables, Liverpool, Murder, Robert Thompson | 9 Comments

Shad Thames and Jacobs Island – The Venice of Drains

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Stephen Liddell

This my second post resulting from my scouting out a new tour I have been wanting to start offering to my lovely tourists. As well as the regular tourist hotspots, I really enjoy taking people to the lesser visited parts … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, London, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours | Tagged Bermondsey, Charles Dickens, Crime, Jacobs island, Long reads, River Neckinger, Rotherhithe, Slums | 22 Comments

101 Most Horrible Tortures In History (my new book!)

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Stephen Liddell

Today is a big day for me, I’m launching my new book on Kindle and Paperback formats! 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History takes a wry look at history, torture and bizarre punishments of times past and just a bit of … Continue reading →

Posted in history, writing | Tagged 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History, books, Crime, Death, Ebook, history, Horror, ibooks, Kindle, Life, New book launch, Torture | 19 Comments

Dick Turpin Highwayman – Stand and Deliver

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Stephen Liddell

For millennia, travelling by land across the British Isles was a dangerous and slow business. Most people when they could travelled by boat on rivers and along the sea-coast and later by canals. Travelling by land was a slow and … Continue reading →