Hoaxes and Pranksters are nothing new!
Social media and the internet has become fertile territory for hoaxes, pranksters, and impostors. Fake…
Hoaxes and Pranksters are nothing new!
Social media and the internet has become fertile territory for hoaxes, pranksters, and impostors. Fake news. Fake obituaries. Wild conspiracy theories. The demonising and bullying of innocent people. “Doxing” individuals by publishing their addresses and personal details. Yet – all of this has been going on, in different ways, for hundreds of years. Though especially…
Jack the Ripper – a woman could have found him!
In 1888, a Victorian woman wrote to The Times newspaper rightly indignant that Scotland Yard refused to countenance the idea of female detectives being sent to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel. Sir Charles Warren, London’s police chief, had just breezily dismissed the idea of women being recruited to investigate the Whitechapel murders….
Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln – by Tony McMahon
For two years, I’ve been investigating the Jack the Ripper case – pouring over the original police and court records, as well as contemporary newspaper reports and other evidence. What I’ve uncovered will amaze you. On May 28, 2024 – I will reveal all in a new book: Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln (Troubador…
From slavery to the boxing ring in Georgian England!
Two black men, born into slavery in north America, went on to become high-profile boxers and celebrities in Georgian England winning big cash prizes. But these boxing fights were racially charged despite their popularity. And both men would die penniless. These are the forgotten black boxers who struggled but ultimately failed to become world champions….
Jack the Ripper unmasked – new evidence!
Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln By Tony McMahon – Troubador: publisher – out on May 28, 2024 Order your copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Ripper-Abraham-Lincoln-greatest/dp/1805143646/ Astonishing new evidence reveals that a man suspected of being Jack the Ripper in 1888 was also implicated as a plotter involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. A…
Why do werewolves like London?
Werewolves and London go together like… Well, they certainly get matched quite often, most famously in the 1981 movie, An American Werewolf in London. As the video below explains, with myself as your host, London has been a recurring venue for our lupine friends. What is a werewolf? What are the origins of the Werewolf…
Worst Royal Funeral ever!
On June 26, 1830 – one of the most unpopular monarchs of England died. King George the Fourth breathed his last. And it seems that nobody particularly cared. This was possibly the worst royal funeral ever! Goodbye to a hated king! The Times published an astonishing commentary referring to George as a “pompous and secluded…
The chaotic funeral of King George III
On 29 January 1820, King George III died bringing an end to a very long reign of sixty years, long surpassed by Queen Elizabeth II who was on the throne for seventy years. George III was Elizabeth’s great-great-great-great-grandfather. Because of intermarriage, they’re related in other ways too. Unlike the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, that of…
The Merstham Tunnel Murder Mystery
One of the greatest unsolved English murder cases is The Merstham Tunnel Mystery that happened in 1905. The body of 22-year-old Mary Sophia Money, 22, was found in a railway tunnel on the South-Eastern Railway line south of London. Mary was a bookkeeper employed at a dairy in Lavender Hill where she lived with the…
Black British Georgian Rebel – William Davidson
In 1820, a group of English radical activists plotted to kill the entire British government while they were sat down to dinner in central London. The Cato Street Conspiracy – so-called from the place where they met to plot – was uncovered and the ringleaders executed in a public and grisly manner. One of those…
