Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast For London, 12 October 2012
Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper two Bloomsbury institutions.
Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper two Bloomsbury institutions.
Jack wasn’t alone.
Rotherhithe tunnel, the Trocadero and a recruitment agency expo…among other winners.
Which F1 World Champion was born 64 years ago in Belmont?
Tuesday’s left-over news….look out for parachutes over the City.
This audio has expired. For episode pictures and other Londonist Out Loud material please see here. Whitechapel has been a hotbed of sensaional crime for centuries. The Whitechapel Society’s Adrian Morris talks to N Quentin Woolf about the Ripper, the Krays and the recent TV …
Is there anything new to say about the Ripper murders? A search on Amazon yields over 50 results – from forensic casebooks to fantastical reinterpretations – and that’s before you even look at web resources. Mary Kelly’s mutilations are as mere paper cuts beside the …
This Sunday, the City of London Cemetery will hold its first Open Day since 2006. The cemetery, out near Wanstead Flats, will put on displays of a more sepulchral nature than your typical garden fete. We’re promised demonstrations of stone masonry and urn design, a …
115. Blood-Stained Ghosts Although the environment that once harboured the elusive Jack The Ripper has altered a great deal since the foggy days of 1888, such ghastly crimes committed have no doubt made an indelible mark upon the framework of the buildings. In the annals …
There really is no end to London’s obsession with the Ripper, and seemingly no end to the market for books about the rogue and the mission to discover his identity. This afternoon the Museum in Docklands (which is of course hosting a Ripper exhibition at …
We gave you a heads up last week but here’s a big reminder – the Museum in Docklands is having a 5th birthday party this weekend, flinging open its waterside doors and welcoming all, waiving its entrance fee. The Museum is lesser known than its …