Month: December 2017

Christmas in 19th Century America Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith                                  “Winter Morning in the Country” (Currier and Ives Print) During this period, Christmas was Read more…

The Christmas Murders – The Knickerbocker Murders Mark Gribben       The first rule of the Knickerbocker Club, the current iteration of the club at the center of several Gilded Age murders which interest us here, is that no Read more…

The Christmas Murders   The Gruesome Murder of Hannah Brown John Rennie The Paddington Murder Sheet, published in 1837, shared the lurid details of Greenacre’s murder of Hannah Brown. Image property of Westminster City Archives. Any piece of detective work Read more…

The Christmas Murders This week; The Legend Of Stagger Lee   Christmas has always been a time of merriment, socializing, and conspicuous consumption. People get thrown together who normally don’t spend much time together, passions rise and so do tempers. Read more…