In 2019, we told you about a new interactive digital “murder map” of London compiled by University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner. Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners’ rolls, the ...
A recent YouGov poll found that the word that Americans most associate with the Middle Ages is "violent." Medieval towns may appear to be full of random violence, every alleyway a potential crime ...
LONDON — A saddlemaker ambushed outside a brewhouse. A man stabbed to death after he stumbled over a heap of dung while trying to flee a fight. And a priest killed by three knife-wielding assailants, ...