News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
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 records, bringing you the darkly fascinating tales that gripped Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Britain.
With over 500 episodes and counting, we explore true accounts of mischief, murder, and mayhem from days gone by — all delivered with a wry nod and a love for the curious corners of the past.
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Episodes
21 episodes
The Wheelbarrow Murder: The Case That Led to Hereford’s Last Execution (1903
The Wheelbarrow Murder: The Case That Led to Hereford’s Last Execution (1903)News of the Times | Episode 599 | 1903#HistoricalTrueCrime #VictorianCrime #EdwardianHistory #TrueCrimeUK #NewsOfTheTimesTonight’s episode opens our Fi...
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The Arsenic Exhumation: How Mary Bailey’s Body Exposed a Killer | True Crime 1863
The Arsenic Exhumation: How Mary Bailey’s Body Exposed a Killer | True Crime 1863News of the Times | Episode 598 1863In 1863, a quiet Stockport household became the centre of one of Victorian Britain’s most chilling poisoning invest...
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The Workhouse Path Murder — South Wales, 1902 | A Fatal December Evening
The Workhouse Path Murder — South Wales, 1902 | A Fatal December EveningNews of the Times | Episode 597 | 1902Southeast Wales, 1902.A woman runs bleeding down a narrow workhouse path, four children behind her screaming “Murder!” int...
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Stalked by Her Brother-in-Law: The Christmas Murder That Shook Post-War Britain | Liverpool, 1918
Stalked by Her Brother-in-Law: The Christmas Murder That Shook Post-War Britain | Liverpool, 1918News of the Times | Episode 595 |1918As Britain celebrated the end of the Great War, one young Liverpool widow was facing a danger far clos...
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Murder on the Winter Road: A Christmas Killing in Ballinrobe | True Crime 1880
Murder on the Winter Road: A Christmas Killing in Ballinrobe | True Crime 1880News of the Times | Episode 594 | 1880A Christmas walk home… a dark boreen outside Ballinrobe… and two figures lying in wait.Tonight we return to County M...
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THE WHITELEY MURDER (1907) — The Crime That Shook Edwardian Britain
THE WHITELEY MURDER (1907) — The Crime That Shook Edwardian BritainNews of the Times | Episode 593 | 1907In January 1907, William Whiteley — London’s famous “Universal Provider” and the man who transformed British shopping — was sho...
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The Wardrobe Murder: The Grim Discovery in 1889 Bury
The Wardrobe Murder: The Grim Discovery in 1889 BuryNews of the Times | Episode 592| 1889A missing businessman. A manager with too many stories. A wardrobe that no one was meant to open.In 1889 Bury, Lancashire, a routine vi...
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The Christmas Execution No One Tried to Stop | True Crime 1898
The Christmas Execution No One Tried to Stop | True Crime 1898News of the Times | Episode 591 | 1898In today’s episode, we travel to Bugsworth, Derbyshire, where the brutal murder of Hannah Cotton shocked Victorian reporters… but what s...
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The Clergyman Who Hid His Wife’s Murder: The Shocking Case of Rev. Selby Watson | True Crime 1871
The Clergyman Who Hid His Wife’s Murder: The Shocking Case of Rev. Selby Watson | True Crime 1871News of the Times | Episode 590 |1871 London 1871A quiet Stockwell street.A respected clergyman.A locked room… and a truth ...
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Two Killers, One Scaffold: The December Double Hanging of 1911
Two Killers, One Scaffold: The December Double Hanging of 1911News of the Times | Episode 589 | 1911On a cold December morning in 1911, the bell at Strangeways Gaol tolled across Manchester.Inside, two very different men walked ...
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The Ivy Inn Murder: A Single Wound and a Vanishing Killer | True Crime 1891
The Ivy Inn Murder: A Single Wound and a Vanishing Killer | True Crime 1891 News of the Times | Episode 588 | 1891 A shocking Victorian crime in which a trusted 16-year-old servant was killed in broad daylight… and her kil...
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The Essex Poisoner: Mary May & the Five-Year Hunt for Britain’s Husband Killers
The Essex Poisoner: Mary May & the Five-Year Hunt for Britain’s Husband KillersNews of the Times | Episode 587 | 1848One quiet Essex village. One determined woman. And a trail of death so shocking it forced Victorian police to inves...
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The Sheffield Poisoning Case – The Artist, the Housekeeper and the Fatal Fowl (1881)
The Sheffield Poisoning Case – The Artist, the Housekeeper and the Fatal Fowl (1881)News of the Times | Episode 586 |1881A quiet December dinner in Victorian Sheffield ends in horror — and a respected artist whispers his final words: “I...
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The Abergavenny Christmas Massacre (1175) — The True Story Behind a Medieval Betrayal
The Abergavenny Christmas Massacre (1175) — The True Story Behind a Medieval BetrayalNews of the Times | Episode 585 | 1175Step into the frozen winter of 1175, when a Christmas peace gathering at Abergavenny Castle turned into one o...
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The Wife Killer of Watchfield: The Brutal Case of John Carter (1893)
The Wife Killer of Watchfield: The Brutal Case of John Carter (1893)News of the Times | Episode 584 | 1893In 1893, the quiet Berkshire hamlet of Watchfield discovered a horror hiding in plain sight.Rhoda Carter — a young wife with n...
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The Kidsgrove Tragedy: Murder, Madness, and the Man Who Vanished Into Himself”
The Kidsgrove Tragedy: Murder, Madness & the Vanished Mind | Staffordshire, 1911News of the Times | Episode 582 |1911 In October 1911, the quiet mining town of Kidsgrove was shaken to its core.Inside a secluded villa, ...
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Yarmouth’s Darkest Day Since the Plague | The 1845 Bridge Disaster
Yarmouth’s Darkest Day Since the Plague | The 1845 Bridge Disaster News of the Times | Episode 581 | 1845What began as a light-hearted Victorian spectacle — a clown in a tub drawn by four geese — became one of the worst civilian dis...
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Murder in Uniform: The Death of William Glass and the Hanging of Inspector Montgomery
Murder in Uniform: The Death of William Glass and the Hanging of Inspector Montgomery News of the Times | Episode 580 | [1871 - 1873 🔍 A Victorian bank clerk found butchered. £1,600 in notes vanished. And standing at the centre of the s...
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The Ardlamont Mystery: Murder, Money, and the Missing Man
The Ardlamont Mystery: Murder, Money, and the Missing ManNews of the Times | Episode 579 | 1893 Scotland, 1893 — A young aristocrat lies dead on a hunting estate. His tutor claims it was a tragic accident. But as investigators...
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1631Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode
Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November EpisodeNews of the Times | Episode 579 | 1631In 1630s County Durham, the dead didn’t just whisper… they testified.This is the gothic true crime s...
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A Most Inconvenient Pregnancy: Class, Murder, and the Doddinghurst Tragedy of 1850
A Most Inconvenient Pregnancy: Class, Murder, and the Doddinghurst Tragedy of 1850News of the Times | Episode 577 | 1850Step into the shadows of rural England, where a quiet field near a stile becomes the setting for a grim discovery.
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