The “lady detectives” of the stage prepared audiences for the real women who would join police forces and investigative ...

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Since A Thousand Blows hit our screens, Mary Carr, the beautiful Victorian female gang boss, is in all the newspapers again.

A former Barwon inmate told the Herald Sun while crime texts had a way of getting inside, books with stories of local crime figures were among the hardest to smuggle in. “All government prisons ban ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Forty-seven years later, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (its official title) has returned to Dublin’s ...

A first-time author has made history by taking out the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature with a picture book – the first time a children’s book has won the prestigious award.

Victorian crime books and raunchy magazines are among the toughest to smuggle into the state’s maximum security prisons. See what’s on the blacklist. Books with violent imagery or filled with ...

and maltreated children of Victorian London are not for the faint-hearted. Check out our Books Hub where you will find the latest news, reviews, features, opinions and analysis on all things books ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

The Scout, newly opened in Gresham’s historic downtown, feels like a cozy afternoon at grandma’s house – paired with ...