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4 days ago · Three of Jack the Ripper's victims had, at one time or another, lived in the same lodging house in Flower and Dean Street, one of a group of adjacent thoroughfares known as the blackest of the black streets where vice, violence and villainy flourished.
May 21, 2024 · The Jack the Ripper murders took place in the East End of London. Although the atrocities took place in a relatively small part of the East End, the reputation that the crimes brought to this small area rubbed off on the whole the East End. The inhabitants came to be seen as a lawless populace living on the periphery of the law.
2 days ago · A place where women were subjected to regular Saturday-night beatings, driven into prostitution, were cheap labour in sweatshops (or, if they were exceptionally lucky, overworked as domestic servants in middle-class households).
2 days ago · The majority of the Whitechapel murders were investigated by officers from the Metropolitan Police. Due to a huge increase in London's buildings and population, by 1888 the force was suffering from a severe understaffing problem.
May 6, 2024 · Jack the Ripper was an English serial killer. Between August and November 1888, he murdered at least five women—all prostitutes—in or near the Whitechapel district of London’s East End. Jack the Ripper was never identified or arrested. Today the murder sites are the locus of a macabre tourist industry in London.
- John Philip Jenkins
- Jack the Ripper is famous in part because his identity is unknown. For years people have speculated about his identity. Commonly cited suspects inc...
- The five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper were Mary Ann Nichols (found August 31, 1888), Annie Chapman (found September 8, 1888), Elizabeth Str...
- Jack the Ripper committed at least five murders in or near the Whitechapel district of London’s East End.
- All of Jack the Ripper’s victims were prostitutes, and all but one were killed while soliciting customers on the street. In each instance the victi...
May 4, 2024 · Two bankers at Stifel, a major US investment firm in London's City, have been sacked after being caught having sex with a cleaner in the office after-hours (Stock image)
May 5, 2024 · As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within. Simon Macdonald | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 5 May 2024.
