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Strange as it might seem to us, the slums of Victorian London were, to many visitors, a tourist attraction in their own right. Many people, visiting the 19th-century Metropolis, would not consider their trip complete unless they had […]
Read ArticleFrancis Charles Hughes-Hallett (1838 -1903) was an officer with the Royal Artillery and the Member of Parliament for Rochester. His first wife, Catherine, died in 1875, and, in 1882, Hughes-Hallett married a middle-aged American heiress, Emilie Page von Schaumberg […]
Read ArticleAt the height of the panic around the Whitechapel murders, all manner of weird and wonderful stories cropped up in the newspapers concerning the behaviour of individuals who found the allure of involving themselves with the case almost […]
Read ArticleBy November, 1890, interest in the Whitechapel murders – and also in the perpetrator of the heinous crimes – showed no signs of abating. It is true to say that the sensationalism, that been so apparent in the […]
Read ArticleAs November, 1888, progressed, the sensation of the Whitechapel murders had, so it seems, led to all manner of cranks, crackpots and practical jokers jumping on the bandwagon and trying to use the fear generated by the atrocities […]
Read ArticleIn May, 1888, Samuel Smith, of the National Vigilance Society, stood up in Parliament to complain about the “immense increase of vile literature”, in particular, the works of Émile Zola (1840 – 1902), which, so Smith claimed, were […]
Read ArticleFollowing the murder of Mary Kelly – which took place in Dorset Street, Spitalfields, on 9th November, 1888, newspapers across the globe began pondering whether the London police force was up to the task of tracking and finding […]
Read ArticleIt’s time for another Jack the Ripper Quiz. The November Victorian true crime quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the Whitechapel murders and of the history surrounding them. There are ten questions, which require you to […]
Read ArticleOn 25th October, 1891, a prostitute by the name of Hedwig Nitsche was found murdered in the in a cellar room at number 10 Holzmarkstr, in the north quarter of the city of Berlin. The murder was a horrible […]
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