“Victorian Supersleuth Investigates … Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders” Angela Buckley Manor Vale Associates Kindle £1.99 Paperback £4.99 In the late 19th century a series of bundles weighed down with bricks were recovered from the waterways of Berkshire.  Their contents appalled the local community and led to the discovery of one of the most prolific serial killers in …

The ill-fated William and Mary departed from Liverpool with a human cargo of 208 British, Irish, and Dutch emigrants in early 1853.  Many of the families on board suffered privations and stormy weather before they even reached the port of Liverpool, standing on wave-washed decks beside cattle and horses as the steamers pitched and tossed and threatened to go under, …

Like most people, I hadn’t heard of the RMS Tayleur until a visit to the museum in Warrington, England a few years ago. My eye was caught by a brass porthole, crusted with barnacles but still surprisingly shiny after over 150 years, fixed to the wall next to a pile of chipped crockery and an etching of a shipwreck. A …