ARCHIVES

This crim­in­al case ana­lys­is is primar­ily based on files and doc­u­ments obtained from archives and world­wide data­bases. We either vis­ited these archives in per­son or accessed them online. Addi­tion­ally, some archives respon­ded to our data requests and provided inform­a­tion via email.

We would like to express our grat­it­ude to the staff of:
The Nation­al Archives, Lon­don Kew
The Wol­ver­hamp­ton City Archives
The Brit­ish News­pa­per Archive
The Brit­ish Lib­rary
The Sher­lock Holmes Col­lec­tion (West­min­ster Lib­rary & Archives)
Can­nock Lib­rary
Dio­cese of Lich­field par­ish registers
Nation­al Lib­rary of Scot­land
His­tor­ic Eng­land Archive
South Stafford­shire Water Archives
Archive & Lib­rary of The Nation­al Rail­way Museum
Aus­t­Lit Dis­cov­er Aus­trali­an Stor­ies (Aus­trali­an lit­er­at­ure data­base)
TROVE (Nation­al Lib­rary of Aus­tralia & Part­ners)
Loc­al Archives of the Cheslyn Hay & Dis­trict Loc­al His­tory Soci­ety & the Leint­wardine His­tory Soci­ety

We recom­mend these archives to every author, pod­caster, research­er, or any­one inter­ested in history!