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Publicity still for The Secret of the Loch, 1934. Courtesy of the BFI National Archive/STUDIOCANAL.

Catching Nessie on Film

Corrina Readioff | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 5 May 2024

The Loch Ness Monster’s first appearance on film captured both the hype and the scepticism surrounding cinema’s newest star.

A scene from Ill Met by Moonlight, the 1957 film based on W. Stanley Moss's account of the Kriepe abduction.

Their Back Pages

Josh Spero | Published in History Today Volume 65 Issue 2 February 2015

Second-hand books don’t just tell the stories of their authors but of their former owners, too.

‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi

A Few Bad Apples

Sarah Wise | Published in History Today Volume 70 Issue 8 August 2020

Brutality, corruption and abuses of power in the Metropolitan Police at the turn of the 20th century led to an inquiry – but no reform.