TBA-001
Jane Clouson
Eltham, 1871
Found dying on Kidbrooke Lane. The evidence against the accused was largely circumstantial. The trial record reveals a prosecution built on inference, not fact.
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Public Evidence Audits
Public samples of the method.
Each investigation below applies the same method used in commissioned work: source hierarchy, provenance assessment, contradiction mapping, and evidential classification. These are public records of what the evidence can and cannot bear.
Criminal Record
TBA-002
Julia Martha Thomas
Richmond, Surrey, 1879
A domestic servant and her employer. A dismembered body recovered from the Thames. A suspect who fled to Ireland. One of the most forensically complex trials of the Victorian period.
Claim tested
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TBA-014
Hawley Harvey Crippen
Camden, London, 1910
The first fugitive caught by wireless telegraphy. A disputed scar identification, a 2011 DNA challenge, and a “confession” quote that doesn’t match the trial transcript.
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TBA-004
The Bermondsey Murder
London, 1849
What the contemporary record establishes about one of the Victorian period’s most discussed domestic homicides, and where the popular account departs from the evidence.
Distortion identified
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TBA-005
Amelia Dyer
Reading, 1896
Archive notes and source reconstruction of the Dyer case — examining what the contemporary record confirms and where the popular narrative extends beyond the evidence.
Source review complete
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TBA-006
The Phoenix Park Murders
Dublin, 1882
The assassination of the Chief Secretary for Ireland and his Under-Secretary. A political crime with a contested evidence trail and a prosecution that raised significant procedural questions.
Claim tested
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TBA-007
The Death of Amy Robsart
Cumnor, 1560
Found at the foot of a staircase with a broken neck. Wife of Robert Dudley, favourite of Elizabeth I. What the contemporary record says — and what four centuries of speculation have added to it.
Source review complete
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Medieval & Early Modern
TBA-003
Anne Boleyn
Tower of London, 1536
The indictment contains dates that make the alleged offences impossible. The Black Archive reads the document itself — what it claims, what contemporary records refute, and what the prosecution cannot reconcile.
Distortion identified
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TBA-008
The Death of William Rufus
New Forest, 1100
Shot by an arrow while hunting. No inquest, no trial, no contemporary account that names a killer. What the record actually establishes about the death of William II — and where the distortion enters.
Distortion identified
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TBA-009
Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie
Scottish Borders, 1530
Hanged by James V after being summoned under what may have been a safe conduct. What the surviving record says about the meeting at Caerlanrig — and what the ballad tradition has added.
Distortion identified
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TBA-010
The Trial of Agnes Sampson
Edinburgh, 1591
Accused of witchcraft in the North Berwick trials. Tortured and executed. What the trial record actually says — and what the confession extracted under torture can legitimately establish.
Claim tested
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TBA-011
The Tower, 1381
London, 14 June 1381
A future king vanished from the record on the day the Tower fell in under an hour. The story that fills the gap is compelling — but may not be true. Distortion analysis of the Peasants’ Revolt’s most dramatic moment.
Distortion identified
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TBA-015
The Commission at Brentwood
Brentwood, Essex, 1381
Six centuries of retellings call him a tax collector. The Crown’s own enrolled record ties him to a peace commission instead, and doesn’t say what sent him to Brentwood at all.
Distortion identified
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Myth & Distortion
TBA-012
King Arthur
Britain, 5th–6th century
What the sources actually say — and when they say it. A systematic review of the earliest references to Arthur against the weight of later tradition, from Nennius to Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Unsupported
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TBA-013
The Arrow That Found Achilles
Classical tradition
The arrow that found Achilles isn’t where you think it is — and the heel itself doesn’t appear in the record for a thousand years. A source-hierarchy analysis of one of antiquity’s most familiar stories.
Distortion identified
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Commissioned work
Private dossiers apply the same method to your subject: source inventory, claim schedule, contradiction table, reliability classification, narrative distortion analysis and a final conclusion section. The format is adapted to the client’s intended use — broadcast, publication, exhibition or legal.
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