Tag Archives: Crime

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 | 10 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 | 15 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 →

Posted in Cool Britannia, history, Popular Culture | Tagged Adam Ant, Crime, Dick Turpin, Epping Forest, Highwaymen, history, Life, London, Murders, Muskets, UK, Whitechapel, York | 2 Comments

Jack The Ripper Breakthrough: Identified as Aaron Kosminski

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Stephen Liddell

It seems slightly unreal to be updating a historical blog post I wrote just a week ago on Jack The Ripper. Jack being the legendary serial killer in Victorian London for whom police identified over 100 suspects. However, several British … Continue reading →