January 2024 (Issue 129)

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Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

Victorian murder scandals What six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A painting of a partially clothed man (wearing shorts, and an open shirt) reclining on a bed.

The new radicals: how the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, in the Tower of London as imagined in Paul Delaroche’s 1852 painting.

Philippa Langley on the Princes in the Tower: “It was clear we had to consider the possibility that they survived” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.