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In several previous blogs I have looked at the alarming number of incidents in which, In Victorian Britain, people found themselves poisoned by food that they have treated themselves to believing them to be mouth-wateringly delicious. There was, […]
Read ArticleInspector Henry Moore (1848 – 1918), was one of the officers who, in September, 1888, was sent from Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, to supplement the East End detective force who were investigating the Whitechapel […]
Read ArticleThe Hertford Mercury and Reformer, on Saturday, 31st December 1859, highlighted the scandal of the adulteration of foodstuffs by unscrupulous tradesmen, who had been discovered to be using poisonous minerals to give a tantalising hue to their products. […]
Read ArticleNever was the adage “you get what you pay for” more apt than when your average Victorian citizen went food shopping. Indeed, when they went shopping for delectable and dainties, such was the deplorable state of adulteration in […]
Read ArticleWhen it comes to cases of food not being fit for the purpose for which it was intended, 19th century England had plenty of stomach-churning cases that make you mightily relieved to be living in an age in […]
Read ArticleBy the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, the newspapers of the day had been reporting constantly on the squalor and the hardships faced on a daily basis by the poor of the area. The […]
Read ArticleOn Saturday 17 November 1888, The Graphic, published an intriguing editorial which took issue with the state of the police cells at various London police stations. The main thrust of the article was simply that, should a respectable […]
Read ArticleThe Sheffield Evening Telegraph, Thursday, 15th November, 1888, published the following intriguing article which expressed concern and bafflement at the way in which the name of Jack the Ripper had, by this time, become truly fixed in the […]
Read ArticleBy the 13th of November, 1888, the full horror of what the murderer had done to Mary Kelly in her room in Miller’s Court was circulating in the newspapers. As word spread about the horror of the crime, […]
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