Only 18 when she became Queen of Britain, Victoria gave her name to an age and an empire. In this collection, learn who she was and what happened to people and countries during her lengthy reign.
A bad lawyer and an insane judge doom the results of Florie's murder trial and sentence.
Florie is sentenced to hang, but after a public outcry against , Queen Victoria intervenes. Flories sentence is changed from death to 15 years in pri...
Charged with capital murder, Florence Maybrick endures a mistake-laden trial.
Florie attempts to make her own cosmetic arsenic, and implicates herself in James' death.
General "Chinese" Gordon offers The Mahdi gifts that he rejects, and then The Mahdi lays siege to Khartoum and beheads Gordon.
Norman dies before he can marry Beatrix.
Florie's marriage goes downhill, with money problems and abuse that James' addiction causes.
HMSResolute, a British Navy ship, becomes trapped in the Arctic ice. The crew abandons the ship but a whaler later finds it.
William Makepeace Thackeray illustrates his own book; see a sampling of those pictures.
Inspector Fred Abberline is the lead detective on the Jack-the-Ripper cases.
Kate Eddowes may be killed because she uses the alias "Mary Kelly."
Kate Eddowes is Jack the Ripper's fourth victim. Her body was found at Mitre Square.
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