On Monday the 21st of March, the story of the courtroom exchange between Mary Ann Donovan and David Williams Wire, Lord Mayor and Chief Magistrate of the City of London, was given prominence in newspapers all over the […]
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In the 1850s, two people became synonymous with the street sellers of Victorian London. The first was the reporter and social historian Henry Mayhew, whose 1851 study London Labour And the London Poor – in which he observed, […]
Read ArticleIt has to be said that, when it came to crime, the Victorian East End could boast a huge variety. It wasn’t just the Jack the Ripper murders – or, for that matter, any form of murder – […]
Read ArticleOn Tuesday, 7th March, 1876, Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice visited Whitechapel in order to open a new wing at the London Hospital on Whitechapel Road. According to The Illustrated London News, “It was a high festival for […]
Read ArticleIt has always been the attention of the Jack the Ripper tour to bring you as much information as we can on the Whitechapel murders and the Victorian history that surrounds them OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL To that end, […]
Read ArticleIt’s time for another of our Jack the Ripper Quizzes. The concept of the challenge is that you must answer 10 questions on the history of the Whitechapel murders. To be honest it isn’t that difficult as, magically, […]
Read ArticleThe following article, which took a look at the impact of the poor law on the lives of those whom it was intended to help, appeared in The Western Times on Wednesday, 24th December 1924:- THE HONOURABLE POOR […]
Read ArticleThe Jack the Ripper murders aside, the 19th century East End was home to a seemingly huge criminal class, members of which were frequently turning up in the courts – and thereafter in the newspapers – of the […]
Read ArticleAlthough the Jack the Ripper murders, as far as we are able to ascertain, did not actually begin until August 31st, 1888 – when Mary Nichols was murdered in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel, the worry about the dangers of […]
Read ArticleAlbert Heidman – better known under the sobriquet of “Shiner Bob” – was, to quote the Daily News “a well-known character” around Spitalfields in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. AN INFAMOUS LOCAL CHARACTER The Derby Daily […]
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