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In 1891, the people of New Orleans won a degree of admiration from the English newspapers when they took the law into their own hands and meted out rough justice to a group of prisoners from the Mafia. […]
Read ArticleAs the end of September 1888 approached the police were continuing their investigation into the murder of Annie Chapman, which had taken place on the 8th of September. They weren’t being helped by the fact that the murders […]
Read ArticleHere at the Jack the Ripper tour, we like to think that we help people o see aspects of London that they might otherwise miss. With the murder sites having now changed beyond recognition, it is easy to […]
Read ArticleIn 1867, the official records appeared to show that fewer murders were being committed in the country, and several newspapers published opinions on why this should be. However, it was also a period that had seen the horrific […]
Read ArticleIn combing the newspaper records from the 19th century, you come across reports of crimes that are familiar as still being committed today, but which were carried out in circumstances that are not exactly recognisable to us today. […]
Read ArticleBy the last week of October 1888, it was becoming more than obvious that the police were not closer to catching the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders than they were when the crimes began several months previously. One […]
Read ArticleBy early October, 1888, the horror of what was happening in Whitechapel was causing terror, panic and excitement. Newspapers across the country were commenting on the murders, amongst them The Graphic, which, on Saturday the 6th of October, […]
Read ArticleWith London reeling from the horrors of the murders of Mary Nichols and Annie Chapman, on Wednesday the 22nd of September, 1888, a murderous attack occurred on Borough High Street to the south of London Bridge, which, although […]
Read ArticleThere is so much that could be said about Henry VIII. His marriages, the beheadings of several of his wives and others, his break with Rome, his Dissolution of the Monasteries, all of which could fill a video […]
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