In 1884, the Reverend Samuel Barnett and his wife, Henrietta, founded Toynbee Hall, a charitable institution meant to improve the lives...

In 1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes published her novel, The Lodger , inspired by a story that painter Walter Sickert heard from his landlady....

In 1910, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen poisoned his wife, Cora, and fled to Canada with his mistress in disguise. Detective Walter Dew, who...