Prisoners infect judges with typhus – jail fever!
In 1750 three judges busily sentencing some criminals to death caught jail fever off them – and died of typhus a little while later

In 1750 three judges busily sentencing some criminals to death caught jail fever off them – and died of typhus a little while later
Xenophobia in London is nothing new as Londoners hated the French two hundred years ago as Tony McMahon discovers
The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn
Historian Tony McMahon investigates the London of The Frankenstein Chronicles