Reading some of the newspaper accounts of the experiences of many people, and particularly those of young girls and women, in London in the 19th century, you would think that people would give the Victorian metropolis a wide […]
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In January, 1889, the name of “Jack the Ripper” was turning up in all sorts of places, both in Britain and abroad. There were, for example, reports in many of the newspapers throughout the month that the murderer […]
Read ArticleEarly on the morning of Saturday the 15th of January, 1870, an “unfortunate”, whose name was Cecilia Aldridge was murdered at a private hotel in Finsbury Square, by a porter at the establishment whose name was Jacob Spinas. […]
Read ArticleFrom October, 1888, when the name of “Jack the Ripper” entered the public consciousness, there were numerous reports, all over the country, of men (and, occasionally, women) who preyed on neighbours – and even friends and family – […]
Read ArticleBy early January, 1889, although the actual alarm and fear that was associated with the early Whitechapel murders had, to an extent, begun to abate, letters from the supposed perpetrator of the crimes were still being sent, and, […]
Read ArticleCombing through the newspaper reports on Jack the Ripper one does come across some quite bizarre events and escapades in which his name of turned up. Indeed, by January, 1889, it is more than apparent that the name […]
Read ArticleFriday the 9th of November, 1888, was the day of the murder of Mary Kelly, which took place in her room, at 13, Miller’s Court, which was located off Dorset Street in Spitalfields. That day was also the […]
Read ArticleBy the 8th of January, 1888, the persona of the murderer who was now widely known as “Jack the Ripper” was infiltrating the public consciousness far and wide. Indeed, it could almost be argued that the criminal himself […]
Read ArticleThe Spitalfields neighbourhood that comprised Flower and Dean Street, Thrawl Street and George Street, was, in the late 19th century, notorious as a hotbed of vice and villainy, and it crops up time and time again in the […]
Read ArticleBy early 1889, the name of Jack the Ripper had spread far and wide, and the fear of him was reaching place that were far, far away from the epicentre of the district in which the Whitechapel murders […]
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