Writing Fighting

MA-Writing
For the past year (and a bit) I have been researching and writing an account of a famous nineteenth century murder as part of an MA at City University.
It was a horrifying case, committed in a small Worcestershire village in 1806. The full terrors of the crime were not exposed for almost twenty four years [...]

7 January 1824 – A Famous Fight

Two hours and thirty two minutes
Trawling through the archives while researching bits and pieces for my MA, I keep coming across curious news stories. Some of them are amusing, others odd. In any case, I thought that this account of a fist fight – or early boxing match – from the nineteenth century was peculiar [...]