Your average Victorian, or, at least, respectable Victorian, could be forgiven for believing that Whitechapel was the crime centre of the metropolis, if not of the whole of Britain. Assaults and murders were commonplace, and robbery was almost […]
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The Morning Post, in its edition of Thursday the 9th of March, 1854, gave details of a court case that had caused a great deal of excitement at the Guildhall Police Court the previous day:- JAMES TUCKER ATTEMPTED […]
Read ArticleVictorian London was rife with murder mysteries, the majority of them being the perpetrated by people who were known to the victims. The Manchester Evening News, in its edition of Thursday the 7th of July, 1892, reported on […]
Read ArticleThe Workhouse remained a place of dread to many of the poor of Britain throughout the Victorian period and on into the first half of the 2th century. On Saturday the 20th of January, 1894, The Hampstead & […]
Read ArticleOver the years since the Jack the Ripper murders occurred, numerous suspects have been put forward as possible contenders for having been history’s most infamous serial killer. There is, however, a general consensus that, whoever the perpetrator of […]
Read ArticleJealousy was a major motive for murder in 19th century London. In fact, the court cases that were reported in the newspapers featured numerous cases where a murder had been triggered by a jealous outburst on the part […]
Read ArticleJust like today, murders took place all over the country in the 19th century, and many of them were equally as horrible, some more so, than those of Jack the Ripper. A report on one such crime appeared […]
Read ArticleOn the 28th of June, 1887, Miriam Agnel was murdered at her house in Batty Street, Whitechapel. A lodger in the same house, Israel Lipski was subsequently charged with her murder, and, after a trial at the Old […]
Read ArticleIn December, 1893, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, and elderly couple who ran a farm in Port Credit, Canada, were brutally murdered, in a crime that shocked the neighbourhood. Ultimately, a man named Walter M’Wherrel was tried, found guilty […]
Read ArticleThere are numerous records in the Victorian newspapers that show how colourful life was in the Victorian East End in the latter half of the 19th century. The Tamworth Herald, in its edition of Saturday the 6th of […]
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