The hanging of James Pratt, 30, and John Smith, 40, became the last executions for homosexual acts in English history.

According to the New York Times, a chaplain by the name of Henry Goodcole worked at one of London's most infamous ...

The attack from all sides was so general, that they were almost instantaneously covered with mud.” These angry scenes took place outside the Middlesex Sessions House in Clerkenwell on 15 January 1819.

She and was outraged at the conditions faced by female prisoners in London’s Newgate Prison. Fry saw hundreds of women imprisoned together in wards. Convicted criminals were mixed with those ...