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In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain. Find out more about GCSE History. Crime and Punishment. Now playing video 3 of 4.
Inside the crime of the 19th century. The gruesome deaths of Borden's parents became a national obsession in the 1890s. Despite the jury’s verdict, the accused's guilt remains a mystery.
A 19th century “anti-vice” law is at the center of a new court ruling that threatens access to the leading abortion drug in the U.S.
Americans can learn valuable 21st-century lessons by studying a 19th-century crime, historian Richard E. Turley Jr. says. He outlined "Lessons We Can Learn from the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...