Sources

Online Resources

The Histories of Whitechapel project created by the Survey of London team details the history of this area of London from earliest times through to 2016. It is a searchable map with family history, photos, interviews, business histories, and film clips Surveyoflondon.org

Casebook: Jack the Ripper is perhaps the most comprehensive site on the topic edited by a group of devotees. It contains everything from transcriptions of a wide variety of primary sources to a wide variety of ephemera from games to podcasts to a newsletter. Casebook.org

For background on the Victorian period in general, the Victorian web is one of the oldest and most comprehensive sites about the Victorian era. It contains primary and secondary sources on art, politics, religion, technology and social life from the nineteenth century. Most work is curated by scholars. Victorianweb.org

The Dictionary of Victorian London is a collection of primary sources transcribed and organized by topic. The focus is on the social history of nineteenth-century London, and it has many documents on crime, poverty, and prostitution. Victorianlondon.org

Main map of Whitechapel

* Ordnance Survey Maps, London, Five feet to the Mile, 1893-1896. Sheets VII. 57, 58, 67, 68. Accessed from the National Library of Scotland.

These maps form the basis of the interactive maps, overlaid with a contemporary google map of London.

* Charles Booth, Descriptive Map of London Poverty, 1889-1890. London School of Economics & Political Science. https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/14/-0.1174/51.5064/100/0

* The Charles Booth poverty map was invaluable in multiple ways, chiefly to track down locations that no longer exist in contemporary London.

Jack the Ripper Resources

  • Abrahamsen, David. Murder and Madness: The Secret Life of Jack the Ripper. New York: D.I. Fine, 1992.
  • Begg, Paul. Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Coville, Gary, and Patrick Lucanio. Jack the Ripper: His Life and Crimes in Popular Entertainment. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.
  • Curtis, L. Perry. Jack the Ripper and the London Press. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
  • Eddleston, John J. Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
  • Haggard, Robert F. “Jack the Ripper as the Threat of Outcast London,” Essays in History 35 (1993): 1-18.
  • Hurren, Elizabeth. “Dissecting Jack-the-Ripper: An Anatomy of Murder in the Metropolis.” Crime, Histoire et Sociétés 20, No. 2 (2016): 5-30.
  • Hutchinson, Philip, Robert Clack, and Stewart P. Evans. The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now. Revised edition. Derby: DB Publishing, 2010.
  • Palmer, Scott. Jack the Ripper: A Reference Guide. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1995.
  • Pemberton, Neil. “‘Bloodhounds as Detectives’: Dogs, Slum Stench and Late-Victorian Murder Investigation.” Cultural & Social History 10, No. 1 (2013): 69-91.
  • Rance, Nicholas. “‘Jonathan’s Great Knife’: ‘Dracula’ Meets Jack the Ripper.” Victorian Literature and Culture 30, no. 2 (2002): 439–53.
  • Rumbelow, Donald. The Complete Jack the Ripper: Fully Revised and Updated. Croyden: Virgin Books, 2013.
  • Walkowitz, Judith R. “Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence.” Feminist Studies 8, no. 3 (1982): 543–74.
  • Warwick, Alexandra, and Martin Willis. Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History. Manchester University Press, 2007.
  • Werner, Alex, ed. Jack The Ripper and the East End. London: Chatto & Windus, 2008.
  • Witner, Sarah A. “‘Two and the Same’: Jack the Ripper and the Melodramatic Stage Adaptation of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film 42, no. 2 (2015): 174-194.

Contextual Academic Sources

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  • Ballhatchet, Joan. “The Police and the London Dock Strike of 1889.” History Workshop, no. 32 (October 1991): 54–68.
  • Bartley, Paula. Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England\, 1860-1914. Routledge, 2012.
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  • Gaffield, Chad. “Conceptualizing and Constructing the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure.” Historical Methods 40.2 (2007): 54-64.
  • Game, Ann and Rosemary Pringle. Gender at Work. London: Allen & Unwin, 1983.
  • Gilman, Sander. “‘I’m Down on Whores’: Race and Gender in Victorian London.” In Anatomy of Racism, edited by David Theo Goldberg. University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
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  • Jones, Gareth Stedman. Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
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  • Massey, Doreen B. Space, Place, and Gender. University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
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  • White, Jerry. Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887–1920. London: Pimlico, 2003
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