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Murdering medics, music halls and the myth of Merrie England

Judge an era by its murders. The Edwardian age’s most notorious crime was a conventional, even banal, domestic killing – “the story of a quiet, unassuming man who poisoned his overbearing wife so that he might be with his lover”. The case of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, a failed medical charlatan, became an instant sensation, with all the ingredients that matched the obsessions and diversions of the time: the music hall – Crippen’s American-born wife Cora had trod the boards as “Belle Elmore” – ind

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Little Englanders by Alwyn Turner, review: judge an era by its murders

Alwyn Turner's portrait of the Edwardian era outlines how – despite a flood of new technologies – Britain became obsessed by its rural past

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You can t help liking this guy, somehow | Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

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Cameras will broadcast from Old Bailey for first televised sentencing

For the first time ever, a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey will be televised, the Ministry of Justice announced. A cameraperson will be in court tomorrow as Ben Oliver, 25, is sentenced

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Was the Doctor Convicted of Killing His Wife Guilty? A London Mystery Involving an American Adulterer

LONDON ‘Hilldrop Crescent is a quiet suburban place, although in the inner ring of the Metropolis, and reasoning specifically, it would be the last spot one would have dreamt of for the scene of a sordid murder’. Thus did the British newspaper The Islington Gazette for 15 July 1910 describe the location of one of Edwardian London’s most notorious crimes; the poison murder by Michigan-born Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen of his German-American wife Cora at number 39 Hilldrop Crescent,

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