By Rupert Matthews
This is a brand new tackle the Jack the Ripper tale. concentrating on the folk who lived during the Ripper's reign of terror, it exhibits what occurred whilst commonly used London streets unexpectedly grew to become the searching grounds of a monster.
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They thought that the new arrivals might spark anti-Semitism by their refusal to assimilate into English culture. Lord Rothschild, one of the richest and most influential Jews in England, wrote: ‘We have now a new Poland on our hands in east London. ’ There had been no anti-Semitic violence and little real trouble, but many people in authority were concerned about the building tension and worried that trouble would flare up in the near future. LIFE IN THE LODGING HOUSES Most of the houses in Whitechapel dated from the late 18th century or the early 19th century.
And yet still the killings continued. East End children beg for money to buy food. Barefoot children were a common sight in poor areas of London The Londoners decided to take things into their own hands. A vigilance committee was set up, funded by local businessmen. Rewards were offered for information, and large numbers of tough men were employed to patrol the streets armed with clubs and pistols. The vigilantes were certainly enthusiastic. Among the men they arrested was a Scotland Yard detective trying to follow up a lead late one evening.
With Jack the Ripper they would be dealing with something new and infinitely more terrible: the world’s first serial killer. THE RISE OF SOCIAL LEGISLATION Three basic changes affecting women were taking place in the 19th century and were driving the changes to how women were seen and treated. The first was legal, the second was economic and the third social. In the legal sphere the state was becoming more and more interested in what its citizens got up to. In part this was because the growing state wanted to tax people, but also there was a perceived need for the state to save people from themselves and from others.