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The Ripper’s Family Pictures of Victorian respectability, brother and sister of Britain’s most notorious killer
The Ripper’s Family Pictures of Victorian respectability, brother and sister of Britain’s most notorious killer Last year, The MoS showed Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski was Ripper Photos of murderer’s family offer strongest clues yet to what he looked like Kosminski was a Polish Jew who had fled to London with his family The 19th […]
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The East End in the 1800s
The East End in the 1800s Except taken from ‘Naming Jack the Ripper’ by Russell Edwards It is just another phase: the East End has been through so many incarnations over the centuries. But the most interesting time to me is the 1880s, the era that spawned the Ripper Murders. In those times the neighbourhoods of Whitechapel and […]
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Whitechapel in the 1880s
Whitechapel in the 1880s For centuries the East End had been a great melting pot, and until this massive flood of immigrants it had dealt well with incomers, but now it was stretched to breaking point, and anyone who could afford to move away did, leaving a population who were, by and large, scraping by. Survival was the key, […]
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Don’t you think it’s time you knew my name?
Don’t you think it’s time you knew my name? Allow me to introduce myself to you. My name is Aaron Kosminski. You won’t know me by name…yet. I was born in 1865 in Poland. In the early 1880s my family escaped the Russian pogroms, and we were lucky to take refuge in London, […]
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Case Solved – Jack the Ripper Unmasked by DNA Technology – MTV.com
Case Solved – Jack the Ripper Unmasked by DNA Technology – MTV.com The most infamous murdering spree in London history has finally been solved 126 years after it occurred – at least, according to author Russell Edwards. In his new book “Naming Jack the Ripper,” which releases this Tuesday, Edwards details how a shawl […]