Hull's most frightening pugilist-turned-evangelical preacher

The fourth and festive mini episode

In this edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra! We read to each other about incompetent police, errant livestock, insanity-inspired murders on the high seas and more. As with all of our mini-episodes, the stories we read out have been sourced by the...

The horrendous murder of the Deering family in Philadelphia

Was it “Human Tigers”, war fanatics, or a simple case of a robbery gone wrong?

The second mini episode from the archives

The first mini episode from the archives

London's headline-making, record-breaking, law-changing citizen

The improbable fiction of Julia Choate Crumley

Euphrasie Mercier and her siblings were set for life, until a revolution left them penniless. Years of trying to make ends meet, spells in asylums and failed businesses followed until, one fateful day, Euphrasie crossed paths with Elodie Menetret, a...