By November, 1888, the radical press had discovered that it could use the Jack the Ripper murders, and the police’s inability to bring the perpetrator of the atrocities to justice, to heap ignominy upon the head of their old […]
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One of the problems that the Victorian journalists faced, when trying to report on the Whitechapel murders, was that the police were reluctant to share any information with the press about their investigation into the crimes. There were […]
Read ArticleThe Jack the Ripper murders were most certainly shocking, and they caused a huge amount of fear and panic in the East End of London. Yet, there was another killer loose on the streets of London at the […]
Read ArticleBy Monday, October 8th, 1888, the two most recent murders – those of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, both of which had occurred in the early hours of the 30th of September, 1888 – had led to the […]
Read ArticleJustice was the weekly newspaper of the Social Democratic Foundation, an organisation which had been established in 1884, and one which had been actively involved in the Trafalgar Square political meetings and unrest of 1886 and 1887. As a […]
Read ArticleIt’s time for another quiz. I hope those little grey are tingling, jumping, bumping and connecting, because, as the year races towards its end – another two quizzes and it will be Christmas – the dedicated “professors” in […]
Read ArticleAs the Whitechapel murders intensified, along with the fear and panic that accompanied the aftermath of each atrocity, more and more attention was paid to the part played by the district in which the crimes were occurring in […]
Read ArticleBy October, 1888, with the number of Whitechapel murders having increased with the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowesm both of which took place in the early hours of the 30th of September, 1888, the people of […]
Read ArticleIn 1879, Parliament passed the Summary Jurisdiction Act, which came into force on the 1st of January, 1880. The day before the Act came into effect, The Derby Daily Telegraph, in its edition of Wednesday, 31st December, treated […]
Read ArticleDrunkenness was a huge problem in Victorian London, especially amongst the poor as it was about the only way in which they could hope to forget the nightmare of the harshness of their everyday living conditions. It was […]
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