On the morning of 12 August 1895, at Invercargill Gaol, a woman walked with measured steps towards the gallows. She cast a glance at the executioner, her lips pressed together in quiet defiance. When asked if she had any last words, she simply declared, 'I have nothing to express except my innocence.' Moments later, the trapdoor beneath her feet opened, and Minnie Dean became the only woman ever executed in New Zealand.

An in depth look at the main suspects in the Lizzie Borden case, from Bridget Sullivan and immigrant labourers to Emma Borden and John Morse, examining motives evidence and lasting doubts.

I was born in 1899 in the village of Pokrovskoe in the county of Tobolsk. My parents are peasants, simple people. Our family consists of: father, mother, grandfather (my father’s father), my brother, sister and myself. We all live happily together but sometimes I get cross with my brother and sister, but with my sister I get cross all the time. My father plays an important role because the Sovereign knows him and loves him.” As a young teenager, Maria Grigorievna Rasputin pen

"I have always loved your son, and I shall die still loving him." On a quiet summer morning in 1955, Ruth Ellis stepped through the doors of Holloway Prison for the last time. Just minutes later, she became the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Her crime was shocking—a point-blank shooting of her lover, David Blakely, outside a Hampstead pub. But what really grabbed the public’s attention was everything that came after: the trial, the headlines, and the growing sense that t

Ken Rex McElroy terrorised Skidmore, Missouri for two decades, beat 20 criminal charges, then was shot dead in front of 46 witnesses. Nobody saw a thing. The full story.

Before Paris sped up, Eugène Atget walked it slowly. With a wooden camera and endless patience, he recorded shop windows, empty streets, and everyday lives that modernity was about to erase. A quiet archive of a city in transition.