Stories
- In pictures
Mass murder and marvellous medicine
Find out how arsenic has been used for good and ill, to cure and kill, for centuries.
- In pictures
How chloroform shaped the murder mystery
Find out how a sweet-smelling liquid anaesthetic captured the public’s imagination and changed pop culture for ever.
- Article
Lustmord and the three perspectives of murder
Artist Jenny Holzer's work shines a light on the three perspectives of sexual murder: the victim, the perpetrator and the observer.
- Article
Birthdays, appraisals and Harold Shipman
Our anonymous GP ponders how a prolific serial murderer has increased the workload of every family doctor.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Murderers
Date: c1880sReference: GALTON/2/8/1/3/11Part of: Galton Papers- Books
Murderers' skulls / Neville Parker.
Parker, Neville.Date: 1988- Archives and manuscripts
Slides of Murderers
Date: c1890Reference: GALTON/2/8/1/13/14Part of: Galton Papers- Books
- Online
A letter from a layman in the country, to, &c. Concerning the Act of Parliament, for bringing to Justice the Murderers of Captain John Porteous.
Webster, H., active 18th century.Date: Printed in the Year M.D.CC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
- Online
The life and dreadful transactions of George Bruce, And his Crew of Robbers and Murderers, Who were all taken in a Cave, near the Sea Side, in Devonshire, where they haunted for 25 years, without being found out, there being so many different inlets to the Cave, and where they robbed and murdered about 800 people. Also an account of the manner in which they were taken, condemned and executed, and their hardened behaviour at the place of execution.
Date: Printed in the Present Year. [1800?]