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Our blog features articles that cover a wide range of subjects concerning many aspects of the Jack the Ripper case and about the streets and history of the East End of London.

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A Whitechapel Robbery

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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Attempted Murder

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 […]

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Bermondsey Murder

Victorian 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 […]

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A Workhouse Death

The 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 & […]

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Jacob Levy

Over 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 […]

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Walter M’Wherrel

In 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 […]

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