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…
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…
The death of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe remains a mystery – was he murdered or was his death faked? Tony McMahon investigates
London historian Tony McMahon guides you through the lives of some notorious highwaymen and their daring in robbing people in central London
This is a curious and terrible story I heard about years ago and found again in an old book on London history dating from the 1870s in my library. The story goes that when King Edward I of England expelled all the Jewish people from his kingdom, one ship captain deliberately murdered a group of…
In 1750 three judges busily sentencing some criminals to death caught jail fever off them – and died of typhus a little while later
Being French in London could make you unpopular long before Brexit when in the 18th century there was widespread xenophobia and abuse
We think of gangs as a modern day evil but Georgian London had its urban gangs like the Black Boy Alley crew as Tony McMahon discovers
Priests and prostitutes seemed to go hand in hand (and more besides) in medieval Southwark as men of the cloth met women of the night
Grim business being in debt in the old days – a debtor could expect to end up behind bars! London had its fair share of prisons located very centrally and one of them was the Fleet – where debtors were flung. The location is quite hard to imagine now but it would have been roughly…
