This book is an overview of the struggle for women to gain the vote in Great Britain and explores who the women were that formed and led or became members of the women's suffrage movement. Early campaigners and pressure groups in the nineteenth century led to the formation of National Union of Women[...]

Did you know? On 15 November 1892 as Dr Neill Cream dropped through the gallows trap at Newgate he declared 'I'm Jack the ...'. (Cream was in prison in America at the time the Ripper murders were committed). In November 1887, there was a pitch battle in Trafalgar Square between those so poor they to[...]

Since its publication in 1897, there have been suggestions that the fictional exploits of "Dracula" were closely associated with "Jack the Ripper" than a "Transylvanian Count". Historian Neil Storey provides the first British-based investigation of the sources used by Stoker and paints an evocative [...]