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Dr Angela Buckley

@drangelabuckley.bsky.social
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Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. drangelabuckley.com

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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm ending the week with a new 'investigation' into the case of Dr Thomas Neill Cream, who fatally poisoned four women in London in 1891-2, for the next book in my new series, The Historical Murder Files. I've started with the original Scotland Yard police reports and the Old Bailey trial.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW EDITION — OUT TODAY! 📚 Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders is back in a new edition, available today in paperback and ebook. The story of one of Victorian Britain’s most notorious baby farmers, and the tragic murders that shocked the nation. 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068185244 #truecrime
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Out today in my crime history newsletter, some ‘dark’ tourism with a glimpse into Cornwall’s shady past, featuring witches, smugglers, a scary prison experience and of course Daphne du Maurier. 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/criminal-c... #truecrime #Cornwall #darktourism #witchcraft #smuggling
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Criminal Cornwall
A crime history tour
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This looks fascinating.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This morning I’ve been at a topping out ceremony at the Isle of Wight College, where I’m a governor. It’s a very exciting capital building project and it was the first time I’ve ever had to wear PPE 😊
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📺 Out today on YouTube! I had a great time filming The Harry Hill Show, as the “Theme of the Week” guest talking Victorian crime with comedian Sunil Patel. Watch here: youtu.be/buICTseSefM?... Thanks to @pastpreservers.bsky.social #HarryHillShow #SunilPatel #VictorianCrime #TrueCrime #History
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The Harry Hill Show - Sunil Patel
YouTube video by HARRY HILL
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great to see these new Black history heritage walks in my home city. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Giving voice to a lost history: retracing the steps of the Black lives that shaped Manchester
A new walking heritage trail follows hidden histories and overlooked landmarks in a city built on the cotton trade
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Beginning my weekend reading with the first instalment of Georges Simenon’s iconic detective series featuring Inspector Maigret. One of my favourite fictional sleuths.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Restful afternoon at the beach after a very busy week.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🕯️ Who killed Charles Bravo? Join me at Kensal Green Cemetery on Saturday 10 October, 1.30 pm, for The Balham Mystery, hosted by London Month of the Dead, to discuss this fascinating and puzzling case. Ticket includes a gin cocktail! londonmonthofthedead.com/thebalhammys... #LondonMonthOfTheDead
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today I'm reading extracts from the memoirs of Detective Archie Carmichael, who served in the City of Glasgow Police from 1859 to 1900. A skilled investigator, his fascinating casebook demonstrates the detective strategies of the time, as well as offering a glimpse of Victorian Glasgow.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🕵️‍♀️The new edition of Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders includes new material on Dyer's time in asylums, drawing on the case reports of psychiatrist Lyttelton Forbes Winslow offering a fresh layer of insight into one of the Victorian era's most disturbing killers 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HFNMZZ81
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My Sunday afternoon read.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great to see the Frida Kahlo exhibition this afternoon at the Tate Modern, especially after visiting her house in Mexico City last year.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I couldn’t resist buying this mug at the Agatha Christie Festival, for my desk.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I had a fantastic time speaking about The Golden Age of Detection this morning, at the fabulous Agatha Christie Festival. It was such a lovely audience - they were very keen to hear about real-life murder!
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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@drangelabuckley.bsky.social absolutely fantastic talk this morning - great way to start the day.
Set up up for the Agatha Christie festival showing a railway inspired poster.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When I visited Mexico City last year, there was much discussion of this codex. It would be amazing to see it. Aztec document goes on display in Mexico after 186 years abroad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Aztec document goes on display in Mexico after 186 years
France's national library is lending the manuscript recounting the history of the Aztecs to Mexico.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Florence Bravo died on 17 September 1878 at Southsea, two years after her husband’s murder. Aged just 33, she died from the effects of alcoholism. Find out about her turbulent life and complex relationships : 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-P... #truecrime #CharlesBravo
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hanging out with the Queen of Crime.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was lots of fun, and very atmospheric, watching Murder on the Orient Express is a prehistoric cave this evening
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve arrived in Torquay and I’m very excited about speaking about The Golden Age of Detection at the Agatha Christie Lit Fest this weekend.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today in The Detective’s Notebook is the sinister case of the Hay poisoner, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, who was convicted of the murder of his wife, Katherine, in 1922, with arsenic 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/the-hay-po...
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The Hay Poisoner
The sinister crimes of Herbert Rowse Armstrong
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔎 120 years after the crimes of baby farmer Amelia Dyer came to light in Reading in 1896, the evidence from the case of one of the babies found in the River Thames was discovered in an attic. I helped examine this extraordinary, but chilling, artefact. Find out more 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HFNMZZ81
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My daughter bought me this magnet on her travels round France this summer. I’m going to adopt it as my personal mantra.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🕯️Several bodies of infants were discovered in the River Thames at Caversham in spring 1896. The inquests took place at St Giles' coffeehouse, Reading (below). 📚The new edition of Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders reveals the outcomes of the inquests. 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HFNMZZ81
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
After seeing the sculpture, Rook with a Book, in Fowey inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s story, The Birds, I decided to watch the Hitchcock movie this evening. It’s absolutely terrifying. Now wishing I wasn’t alone in a house by the coast…
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I love a shiny, new crime history project and today I started researching the case of Dr Thomas Neill cream, who fatally poisoned four women in Lambeth, in 1892. I've been reading the original Scotland Yard reports, and it is fascinating to follow the detective investigation into this complex case.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Since I came back from my holiday in Cornwall, I’ve started reading the ‘Cornish’-related books I brought back with me. I’ve just finished The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier and it was such a fantastic read.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Florence Bravo was born on 5 Sep 1845 in Sydney, NSW. In the 1850s, she moved to Buscot Park, Oxon. She separated from her first husband and married Charles in 1875 – he died of poisoning four months later. She was a wealthy, independent woman who knew her own mind. www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-P...
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🙏 Thank you to everyone who has bought The Mysterious Poisoning of Charles Bravo – your support is really appreciated! ❤️ Special thanks to readers who have posted reviews – I've been delighted with such positive feedback. 💛 I hope you all have a lovely weekend! 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-P...
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This morning I've been putting the final touches to my notes for my talk on The Golden Age of Detection at the International Agatha Christie Literary Festival on Fri 18 Sep, which I'm really looking forward to! There are still some tickets, if you fancy coming along: www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
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International Agatha Christie Festival | The Golden Age of Detection
To open the Friday of our Literary Festival, the Agatha Christie Festival is delighted to welcome renowned historian Dr Angela Buckley.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🪦My final video reveals how I discovered the location of Charles Bravo's grave in West Norwood Cemetery – it was quite a challenge! 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-P... #truecrime #CharlesBravo #crimehistory #detective #investigation
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
☠️So, after all my posting about the Charles Bravo case, who do you think killed him? 🔍 Was it his wife Florence, her former lover Dr James Gully, or her companion Jane Cox? Or, was it all three? I'd love to know what you think... 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-P...
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🔍 Here's the second video of my search for the key locations in the Charles Bravo case. This time I visited the Bedford, which was the pub where the second inquest into his death took place in the summer of 1876. 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-P...
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As I’ve always been involved in education, as a student or teacher, and now as a college governor, September feels like the beginning of a new year - full of purpose and promise. So, happy new academic year! (This is my non-academic, Agatha Christie calendar 😊)
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Earlier in the summer I visited the key locations of my book, The Mysterious Poisoning of Charles Bravo. I started with the Priory, in Balham, where he died in 1876. Here’s how I got on…
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When I’m travelling, I like to buy books linked to my destinations as souvenirs. Here are some of those I’ve brought home from my week in Cornwall.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I went on a coastal hike today and came across the grave of Sir John Betjeman.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I spotted this list of executions in Cornwall from 1785 to 1882, in Fowey Museum, featuring livestock thefts, burglaries, forgeries, setting fire to haystacks, and lots of murders.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I discovered these fabulous skulls in Fowey Church, as well as a wonderful 18th century poem listing bell ringer ‘crimes’, such as ‘marring a peal’, which would result in a sixpence fine.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m on holiday in Cornwall this week and I loved this sculpture celebrating Daphne du Maurier’s work, in Fowey where she lived. The bird is quite scary!
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I loved this series - a French Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, set in Nice in 1936, with fabulous female leads. Highly recommended! www.netflix.com/gb/title/820...
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Watch Summer ’36 | Netflix Official Site
Nice, 1936. As workers enjoy their first paid holidays, four very different women become entangled in the murder of a prosecutor at the Riviera hotel.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm delighted to announce that the next book in The Historical Murder Files is available to preorder on Kindle. Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders is an extended and updated edition of my first book, featuring new material including the histories of her victims. 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HFNMZZ81
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I had a voicemail from my local garage this morning, about my car service, and my phone transcribed it as being the ‘Assassinate Service Department’ - that certainly piqued my interest 😆
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This week in my crime history newsletter, I examine four historical homicide cases which the Metropolitan Police never solved, and which contributed to the formation of the detective department at Scotland Yard: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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The first Metropolitan Police murders
Four unsolved historical homicides
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm really looking forward to returning to Torquay this year for the Agatha Christie Festival, where I'll be speaking about The Golden Age of Detection, on Friday 18 September at 10 am. Tickets here: www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#Chartism #GreatDayOut #PeoplesHistory Chartism Day takes place in Warwick on Saturday 19 September. Get your ticket here👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
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Chartism Day 2026
Join us to discover the latest research on Chartism and get the chance to meet fellow Chartist scholars and enthusiasts. All welcome.
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m ready for the eclipse…
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
150 years ago today, on 11 Aug 1876, the second inquest into the death of Charles Bravo, held at the Bedford Hotel, Balham ended after 23 days and some 40 witnesses. The jury concluded that Charles was wilfully murdered but there was insufficient evidence to say by whom. books2read.com/charlesbravo
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