We've a real mixed bag for you this week - from the theft of a banknote that saw the perpetrator scarper in the buff (reported in Jackson's Oxford Journal, 24 Nov 1855) to a more sobering and tragic story that looks at the impact of cholera on a young life and the subsequent attack on the cholera...

Ahead of International Women's Day, in this episode our stories explore different experiences and achievements of women throughout history - from the incredible story of a no-nonsense suffragist who travelled from the USA to London to investigate her two-timing husband (as reported in The Chicago...

There's a little Antipodean flavour to some of this week's stories - Michala takes us from a highway robbery in Bradford, England (reported in the Leeds Mercury, 30th December 1843) across the seas to Australia, tracing the fate of two men called Abraham. Not to be outdone, Brad takes the robbery...