by Dr Angela Buckley | Jul 10, 2026 | Events
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 INTERNATIONAL AGATHA CHRISTIE FESTIVAL To open the Friday of our Literary Festival, the Agatha Christie Festival is delighted to welcome renowned historian Dr Angela Buckley. In the early decades of the twentieth century, groundbreaking advances in...
by Dr Angela Buckley | Jul 10, 2026 | Events
5-7 JUNE 2026 – PAST EVENT ALIBIS IN THE ARCHIVE Crime investigation has captured the public’s imagination since the early nineteenth century, and the fascination with detectives and their sleuthing adventures endures today. Yet, despite the widespread interest,...
by Dr Angela Buckley | Jul 10, 2026 | Events
26 MARCH 2026 – PAST EVENT Uncovering the criminal past with Angela Buckley Join crime historian, Angela Buckley, for a fascinating journey into the shadowy underworld of the past, exploring the darker side of history through the lens of crime, criminals and...
by Dr Angela Buckley | Jun 17, 2026 | Charles Bravo
My new book, The Mysterious Poisoning of Charles Bravo, is now out! To celebrate, I’ve compiled a timeline of the key events in this fascinating real-life historical murder mystery, which took place in Balham, London in 1876. 1. Tuesday 18 April – Charles falls ill...
by Dr Angela Buckley | May 15, 2026 | The Adventures of Detective Caminada
Warning: contains references to child murder Detective Caminada didn’t investigate many murders during his thirty-year-long career in the Manchester City Police. He wrote about two desperately sad cases in his memoirs, to which he gave rather unemotional titles. The...
