News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime

History Podcasts

Welcome to News of the Times! Step into the shadowed alleyways and gaslit parlours of the 18th and 19th centuries with News of the Times — a meticulously curated journey through historical crime. Each episode draws from authentic reports and court...

Episodes

The Putney Mystery: The Death of Ellen Matilda Franklin (1892)

The Cambridge Pudding Mystery: The Suspected Poisoning of Henry Day | True Crime 1871

The Death of Ellen Warder: A Victorian Poisoning Mystery | True Crime 1866

The Blue Anchor Inn Mystery | True Crime 1924

The Green Bicycle Mystery: The Murder of Bella Wright | True Crime 1919

The Pranzini Case: The Triple Murder on the Rue Montaigne | True Crime Paris 1887

The Harvard Murder: The Disappearance of Dr George Parkman | True Crime 1849

The Love That Led to Family Murder: The Arsenic Death of Richard Gallop | True Crime 1844

The Finsbury Park Shooting: The Jealousy Murder of Jane Messenger (1880)

The Butcher’s Wife Mystery (1881)

The Warminster Poisoning: The Death of Elizabeth Pearce | True Crime 1895

The Arsenic Murders of Lancaster Castle: The Deaths of the Bingham Family

Accident or Murder? The Death of Mary Cremen | Crosby, 1882

The St Mellons Mystery: The Murder of Susan Gibbs (1874)

The Churchill Cottage Murder: Fire, Blood & a Fatal Will | True Crime 1879

The Dunn Case: The Evidence That Exposed a Deadly Lie | True Crime 1927

The Meader Case: The Death of Mabel Meader & the Marshall Hall Defence | True Crime 1922

The One-Penny Wife: Starvation, Poison, and the Law (1829)

The Ashton Love Triangle Murders: A Victorian Poisoning Mystery | True Crime 1886

The Car Murder That Stunned Britain: Alfred Rouse and the Unknown Victim