BERNARD SPILSBURY BRITAIN’S ‘FATHER’ OF FORENSIC SCIENCE
BRITAIN’S ‘FATHER’ OF FORENSIC SCIENCE Sir Bernard Spilsbury, generally regarded as the ‘father’ of forensic science in Britain, was so meticulous in his research into murder cases that on one occasion he almost caused a tragic death himself! Well, that doesn’t sound like a great start. What happened? Ed Brides in the bath The case […]
John Snow: The Detective Who Solved the Cholera Mystery
Dr John Snow: Cholera Detective The detective Right from the start of his medical career, John Snow showed he had an analytical mind, filling notebooks with data and adding his own thoughts and observations. He was born in 1813 in York and attended a private school as a boy. He was a medical apprentice in […]
Sherlock Holmes & Victorian London
Sherlock Holmes & the Two Cities of Victorian London: Crime, Class and Forensics Hooves clatter across cobblestones. Whip-smart Whitechapel street urchins pickpocket revellers spilling from music halls. The salty aroma of street vendors’ fried fish drifts down gaslit alleys, while sewage stench wafts from the River Thames. A gold-and-green omnibus judders to a halt outside […]