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  • Barbara Daly Baekeland: The Bakelite Heiress Killed by Her Son in Chelsea

    November 1972, Barbara Daly Baekeland left a long lunch in Belgravia and told her hosts she had to get home There were warnings, some of them blunt. You'll see confident figures online for Brooks Baekeland's net worth, but none of them comes with a source It comes from friends who say Barbara told them, and Barbara liked to shock. Then the police, a doctor and her own friends each told her what was coming, and she didn't believe them

  • Kaspar the Savoy Cat: A Mascot of Tradition and Mystery

    Kaspar’s Role in High Society Over the decades, Kaspar’s role at the Savoy grew into a charming tradition

  • Rebecca Bradley — The Texas “Flapper Bandit” Who Held Up a Bank With Charm and an Empty Gun

    On a crisp Saturday morning, 11 December 1926, the quiet farming community of Buda, Texas — some fifteen Flapper Bandit”, her story splashed across front pages and retold with lurid embellishment for years to come Back home, she emptied the pistol’s magazine (but overlooked the chambered bullet), bundled the remaining

  • Minnie Dean: The Baby Killer And The Only Woman To Be Executed In The History Of New Zealand.

    remembered at all, mostly as a monster: a woman who took in unwanted babies for money and quietly killed some When police searched Dean's home they found the missing child's clothing but no sign of the baby, and cared for 28 children altogether: five were in good health and still in her care when police raided her home Not everyone who has looked closely at the case since has come away certain Dean was a calculating killer

  • Meet The Forty Elephants, The All-Girl Gang From London

    The members would often dress as housemaids in order to gain entry to wealthy homes, relieving the inhabitants Other members included Lillian Rose Kendall, also known as the “Bobbed-Haired Bandit,” left, and Florrie For her role as instigator, Diamond was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Alice Diamond first took a twelve-year-old Shirley shoplifting in 1947, after Shirley's father came home Following her departure, the leadership of the gang fell into the hands of Lillian Rose Kendall, a true

  • John Cooper Clarke and Nico: The Bard of Salford's Lost Brixton Years

    The Brixton Flat At some point the two of them moved down to London together and set up home in Brixton Some accounts call it a flat, the Guardian's memoir review calls it a dosshouse. At some point she fell and hit her head. What's refreshing is that he's never dressed his recovery up as some noble awakening. The Comeback Nobody Saw Coming Once he was clean, the world slowly came back round to him.

  • The Photographer Who Might Have Been a Serial Killer: The Chilling Case of William Bradford

    At some point during or after the shoot, he strangled her to death. Some photos were grainy or poorly lit. Television reports encouraged viewers to come forward if they recognised anyone. Some remembered Bradford. Some may simply have been women Bradford photographed for legitimate purposes.

  • The Story Of Ruth Ellis, The Last Woman To Be Hanged In The UK

    Ruth Ellis Poses For Captain Ritchie’s Camera (1954) At 14, Ruth left school and fled her home in search experiences with men and relationships would echo the same cycles of abuse and entrapment she had suffered at home While some believed justice was served, many were appalled that a woman – a victim of abuse and emotional Her execution played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom

  • The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers

    Right: Actress Jayne Mansfield at home, Portrait, Hollywood, 1959. Left: Gloria Vanderbilt at home, Gloria Vanderbilt, Heiress and Designer, New York, 1956. This union further expanded her circle of high-profile acquaintances, including some of the biggest stars

  • When Gunfire Reached the House Floor: The 1954 Puerto Rican Nationalist Attack on the US Capitol

    To some, it was reckless violence. Lebrón reportedly told police, “I did not come to kill anyone. I came to die for Puerto Rico.” Some supported independence. Others favoured statehood. In Puerto Rico, police raided Albizu Campos’s home the next morning, firing tear gas and bullets into “True change comes only through peaceful means.”

  • The Cato Street Conspiracy: A Forgotten Chapter in British History

    Alarmed at how few of them there were, some attempted to back out, but others started to distribute swords broke into the stables and clambered up a ladder into the hayloft, where they were met with chaos as some Several conspirators decided to testify against the others, some were sent to Australia, and Thistlewood Five men from the initial 11 sentenced to death for their roles in the Cato Street Conspiracy had this in understanding the character of the men involved in the conspiracy, and as such play a principal role

  • The Ace with the Bass: Phil Lynott’s Life of Swagger, Soul and Sadness

    Phil Lynott at home with a friend at Embassy Court, West Hampstead, London (1976) The First Black Irish man balancing contradiction: a church-going, literature-loving son who grew into a man playing the role On Christmas Day 1985, Lynott collapsed at his home in Kew, West London.

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