Art and Architecture, mainly

François Marie Arouet (1694-1778) was the son of a treas­ury of­ficial. In 1704, soon after his mother’s death, Arouet was sent to the Jesui...

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani in Feb 2014 for smuggling drugs. Photo credit: Newsweek. This article was written by the journalis...

The theft discussed here was the latest in a series of robberies targeting major European museums, soon after a series of other high-profile...

6 English farm labourers who were sentenced in March 1834 to 7 years’ transportation to an Australian penal colony for organising trade-unio...

Police court summons and photo, Nov 1911 Photo credit: Leeds Museums & Galleries Leonora Throp Cohen  (1873–1978) was born in Leed...

Read Tyrannicide Brief: Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold  by Geoffrey Robertson. Charles triggered the tragic civil wars ...

Few places in the world were as infamous for murders as the East End of London . Jack the Ripper, The Krays and 1811 Ratcliffe Highway murde...

The Stamp Thief was a documentary investigating a Holocaust event: that some unknown Nazi stole priceless stamp collections from concentrat...

Only a few decades after the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games debacle and the WW2 Holocaust ending in 1945, West Germans hoped they’d rehabilit­at...