Blogs in September 2023

The Maid of Lindal Hall 5th September 2023

Barrow-in-Furness, 1933 The days of the Barrow Union at Roose are numbered and it is due be closed, along with all the other workhouses. Instead ‘Cottage Homes’ have been set up for pauper children, where they live under the...

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One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper 3rd September 2023

Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack the Ripper by linking eye-witness accounts of the killer’s distinctive physical characteristics to his official medical records. It argues that his...

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The Sussex Pond Murder 2nd September 2023

The Sussex Pond Murder centres upon the mysterious death of Michelle Gagneux, a French teacher at St Wilfrid’s Prep School for boys, who is found lifeless in the school pond in the winter of 1983. The story follows Michael...

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Just Between Us 30th August 2023

Lost. Missing. Murdered? And both her husbands are suspects… Kylie Gillingham’s disappearance has gripped the nation: the woman with a shocking secret – married to two men at the same time – is missing, presumed dead. And both her...

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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird 26th August 2023

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...

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