Long before the Jack the Ripper crimes brought terror and panic to the inhabitants of Victorian Britain, the newspapers were pondering why murders should have such an impact on society as a whole. The St James’s Gazette, in […]
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I have recently been perusing copies of The Pall Mall Budget – the weekly digest of articles that had appeared in The Pall Mall Gazette – searching for information on the Whitechapel murders, as well as on Whitechapel […]
Read ArticleThroughout the first thirty to forty years of the 20th century many of those who had been involved in the case of the Whitechapel murders, one way or another, began dying off, and the newspapers were quick to […]
Read ArticleReading through the newspaper accounts of disputes that occurred on the streets of Victorian London, you come across some that really make you wish that you could have been present in the court to watch the combatants go […]
Read ArticleContrary to popular assumption, murder was, in fact, quite common in Victorian London, and the murder of women particularly so. It’s also quite surprising, when you follow the accounts of the murders in the newspapers, how many of […]
Read ArticleOne of the major causes that was pursued throughout the 1880s was the problem of unemployment in the East End of London. Pauperism was certainly rife in the district, and philanthropists were wrestling with the problem of how […]
Read ArticleYour average Victorian, or, at least, respectable Victorian, could be forgiven for believing that Whitechapel was the crime centre of the metropolis, if not of the whole of Britain. Assaults and murders were commonplace, and robbery was almost […]
Read ArticleThe Morning Post, in its edition of Thursday the 9th of March, 1854, gave details of a court case that had caused a great deal of excitement at the Guildhall Police Court the previous day:- JAMES TUCKER ATTEMPTED […]
Read ArticleVictorian London was rife with murder mysteries, the majority of them being the perpetrated by people who were known to the victims. The Manchester Evening News, in its edition of Thursday the 7th of July, 1892, reported on […]
Read ArticleThe Workhouse remained a place of dread to many of the poor of Britain throughout the Victorian period and on into the first half of the 2th century. On Saturday the 20th of January, 1894, The Hampstead & […]
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