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In many ways Victorian society was a forge ahead society. There was a huge belief in people being self sufficient and making their own way in the world. The newly emerged middle class was, in many ways, justly […]
Read ArticleOn 9th November 1888 Mary Kelly was murdered in her room in Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street. She is generally believed to have been the last of Jack the Ripper’s victims. However, the Whitechapel Murders continued and several […]
Read ArticleOn 18th November 1888, the people of the East End were struggling to come to terms with the horror of the murder that had taken place on the 9th November 1888. People were terrified and, just as in […]
Read ArticleOn Sunday we set up a quiz to test your knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and of Victorian history in general. How do you think you did? If you want to read the questions please click […]
Read ArticleOne of the most misreported episodes in the hunt for Jack the Ripper is the story of how the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, attempted to use bloodhounds in an endeavour to catch the killer. The idea […]
Read ArticleSir Charles Warren, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1888, has received a great deal of criticism over the years for his force’s inability to catch Jack the Ripper. In fairness to Warren much of that criticism […]
Read ArticleIn June 1887 there had been a huge sensation caused by the the arrest of a 23 year old milliner. Her name was Miss Elizabeth Cass and she had been taken into custody by Police Constable Endacott who […]
Read ArticleBy the time of the Jack the Ripper Murders many eastern European Jews had settled in the East End of London and a ghetto had, effectively, been established. One of the questions that we often get asked on […]
Read ArticleSometimes it is interesting to focus on the background to the police investigation and look at the bigger picture of what was going on in the Metropolitan Police at the time of the murders. There was a huge […]
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