Sarah Pardee was beautiful and charming, musically talented and fluent in several languages. She lived with her parents in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States. Born in 1839, she was, by the 1860’s well known in social circles, and her company was sought after by many of the town’s eligible bachelors. The young… Read More

  Just over seventy years after his death, the name Hermann Goering (1893-1946) is still sadly familiar to most of us today. A leading member of the Nazi Party, he founded the dreaded German secret police known as the Gestapo, and was appointed Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe, Germany’s Air Force, from 1935 until… Read More

  On 17th October 1678, Sir Edmund Godfrey was discovered lying face down in a ditch on Primrose Hill,North West London. He had been strangled and his neck broken. He had also been run through with his own sword. The perpetrator, or perpetrators, had clearly adopted a ‘belt and braces’ approach to the killing. But… Read More