Dr Angela Buckley
@drangelabuckley.bsky.social
Historian and author specialising in Victorian and Edwardian detectives, forensic science and true crime. Rep: Past Preservers.
http://drangelabuckley.substack.com
http://drangelabuckley.substack.com
🔎Today I'm celebrating my 100th post on my Substack, The Detective's Notebook. Huge thanks to all my fabulous readers – I love sharing my work with you! If you're interested in true crime, Victorian detectives and the history of forensic science, do check it out 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🔎Today I'm celebrating my 100th post on my Substack, The Detective's Notebook. Huge thanks to all my fabulous readers – I love sharing my work with you! If you're interested in true crime, Victorian detectives and the history of forensic science, do check it out 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com
This evening I’ve been doing some family history and I was very excited to discover a miller in my tree - my 5 x great-grandfather,Thomas Potter, in Strelley, Notts.
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This evening I’ve been doing some family history and I was very excited to discover a miller in my tree - my 5 x great-grandfather,Thomas Potter, in Strelley, Notts.
I came across this case of a fake detective, in the Manchester Courier from November 1900, which really made me smile.
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I came across this case of a fake detective, in the Manchester Courier from November 1900, which really made me smile.
🔎This week in my Substack newsletter, The Detective's Notebook', I'm investigating the Whitechapel murders of 1888. In today's post, I've been examining the possible victims of 'Jack the Ripper', including the 'canonical five' 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/the-victim...
The victims of Jack the Ripper
Examining 'the canonical five'
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November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🔎This week in my Substack newsletter, The Detective's Notebook', I'm investigating the Whitechapel murders of 1888. In today's post, I've been examining the possible victims of 'Jack the Ripper', including the 'canonical five' 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/the-victim...
We had an early morning visitor in London.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We had an early morning visitor in London.
I recreated the scene (of my great-grandmother at Blackpool) a century later.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I recreated the scene (of my great-grandmother at Blackpool) a century later.
Heading to Blackpool today with my sister. Hoping we’ll enjoy it more than our great-grandmother did.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Heading to Blackpool today with my sister. Hoping we’ll enjoy it more than our great-grandmother did.
🔎 For my paying subscribers (thank you!) on Substack, I like to delve deeper into my work as a crime historian and this week I revealed some of the extraordinary crime-related artefacts I've discovered in the archives. 🔗 You can read a free preview here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/secret-art...
Secret artefacts and shocking discoveries
Crime-related objects unearthed in the archives
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November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🔎 For my paying subscribers (thank you!) on Substack, I like to delve deeper into my work as a crime historian and this week I revealed some of the extraordinary crime-related artefacts I've discovered in the archives. 🔗 You can read a free preview here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/secret-art...
While I was in Lancaster last week visiting my son, I went to the Old Pier Bookshop in Morecambe for the first time. It is an amazing place stuffed full of thousands of books on labyrinthine shelving. I picked up some true crime books to add to my collection.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
While I was in Lancaster last week visiting my son, I went to the Old Pier Bookshop in Morecambe for the first time. It is an amazing place stuffed full of thousands of books on labyrinthine shelving. I picked up some true crime books to add to my collection.
🔍This morning I enjoyed a fascinating tour of the 150 Years of the Crime Museum exhibition, at the Metropolitan Police Museum. There were lots of interesting artefacts from historical crime cases to show how detection and forensic science have been used to solve crime over the decades. A must see!
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🔍This morning I enjoyed a fascinating tour of the 150 Years of the Crime Museum exhibition, at the Metropolitan Police Museum. There were lots of interesting artefacts from historical crime cases to show how detection and forensic science have been used to solve crime over the decades. A must see!
🔍✨ New post alert! Detective History in 10 Objects – a fascinating dive into the everyday tools used by early police detectives to develop their sleuthing skills🕵️♂️
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
Detective history in 10 objects
The everyday tools of Victorian and Edwardian investigators
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November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🔍✨ New post alert! Detective History in 10 Objects – a fascinating dive into the everyday tools used by early police detectives to develop their sleuthing skills🕵️♂️
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
I’d love to go back to Cairo now the Grand Museum is finally open www.bbc.com/news/article...
Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time
The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’d love to go back to Cairo now the Grand Museum is finally open www.bbc.com/news/article...
🎃 My favourite spooky crime-related object is the hand of glory, which was made from the dried hand of a hanged criminal and used as a magic tool by thieves to enter a property by rendering the occupants immobile. It could also unlock doors. This one is from the Whitby Museum. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🎃 My favourite spooky crime-related object is the hand of glory, which was made from the dried hand of a hanged criminal and used as a magic tool by thieves to enter a property by rendering the occupants immobile. It could also unlock doors. This one is from the Whitby Museum. Happy Halloween!
🕷️The Isle of Wight is full of surpirses! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
Conservationists hail ‘remarkable’ rediscovery after 40 years, at nature reserve only accessible by boat
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October 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🕷️The Isle of Wight is full of surpirses! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🎃I had a great evening at the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Local History Society, talking about my book, the Bermondsey Murder, for a special Halloween meeting.
October 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🎃I had a great evening at the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Local History Society, talking about my book, the Bermondsey Murder, for a special Halloween meeting.
In a pub in Lancaster watching the football. Well, everyone else is…
October 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In a pub in Lancaster watching the football. Well, everyone else is…
🔎Today in The Confidential Files (for paid subs) I take a deeper look at the investigation into the murder of bookseller Edward Moyse in 1895. My study reveals that detectives used a range of sleuthing strategies, including a rather unorthodox ID parade 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/investigat...
Investigating the murder of Edward Moyse
A complex case featuring multiple detective strategies
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October 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🔎Today in The Confidential Files (for paid subs) I take a deeper look at the investigation into the murder of bookseller Edward Moyse in 1895. My study reveals that detectives used a range of sleuthing strategies, including a rather unorthodox ID parade 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/investigat...
I do like a ghost story, especially when it’s linked to a historic building 🔗 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Faceless figures and mysterious music: ghost stories from English Heritage sites
Figure caught on camera at Chester Castle among accounts of eerie goings on at historic properties
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October 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I do like a ghost story, especially when it’s linked to a historic building 🔗 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I love this! Agatha Christie meets Mr Men in new children's books www.bbc.com/news/article...
Agatha Christie meets Mr Men in new children's books
Christie detectives Miss Marple and Poirot join forces with Mr Tickle and others for the children's series.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I love this! Agatha Christie meets Mr Men in new children's books www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’m trying to read all the books in the Inspector Maigret series, and this is the next one on my shelf.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I’m trying to read all the books in the Inspector Maigret series, and this is the next one on my shelf.
I finally managed to get out for a walk this morning, between rain showers. I love passing through the local churchyard especially as the seasons change.
October 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I finally managed to get out for a walk this morning, between rain showers. I love passing through the local churchyard especially as the seasons change.
This is very interesting (especially as it is about my home city) and it’s a reminder that we need to question firsthand historical accounts.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
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October 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This is very interesting (especially as it is about my home city) and it’s a reminder that we need to question firsthand historical accounts.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
🔎This week in The Detective's Notebook is an investigation into the brutal murder of Edward Moyse, a bookseller from Liverpool, which reveals the sleuthing skills of the late-Victorian police detectives who used a variety of strategies to solve the case 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/death-of-a...
Death of a bookseller
The brutal murder of Edward Moyse
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October 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🔎This week in The Detective's Notebook is an investigation into the brutal murder of Edward Moyse, a bookseller from Liverpool, which reveals the sleuthing skills of the late-Victorian police detectives who used a variety of strategies to solve the case 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/death-of-a...
I had a great time yesterday evening talking to members of @bifhsgo.bsky.social about how to find the criminal ancestors in your family tree. They were a lovely audience and we had a lively debate about crime, punishment and some stranger-than-fiction family stories.
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I had a great time yesterday evening talking to members of @bifhsgo.bsky.social about how to find the criminal ancestors in your family tree. They were a lovely audience and we had a lively debate about crime, punishment and some stranger-than-fiction family stories.
How swear words differ around the world www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world
Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked
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October 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
How swear words differ around the world www.theguardian.com/science/2025...