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Oct 17, 20191 min read

‘The Whitechapel monster’

The Illustrated Police News was one of the earliest British tabloid newspapers. Built around garish reports and still more garish...

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‘Jack the Ripper. Who is he? What is he? Where is he?’

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

‘Jack the Ripper. Who is he? What is he? Where is he?’

In autumn 1888, five women in east London slums died at the hands of an unknown man. The murderer became known as ‘Jack the Ripper’. The...

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Anonymous letter to City of London Police about Jack the Ripper

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

Anonymous letter to City of London Police about Jack the Ripper

In autumn 1888, five women in east London slums died at the hands of an unknown man. The murderer became known as ‘Jack the Ripper’ a now...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

Goblin Market

Goblin Market and other poems was Christina Rossetti’s first collection of published poems. Reviewers highly praised the collection for...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

News from Nowhere

William Morris’s utopian novel, News from Nowhere, was written in 1890. Morris's narrator wakes in a post-revolutionary future in which...

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Shakespeare’s Heroines by Mrs. Jameson with many decorative designs by R. Anning Bell

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

Shakespeare’s Heroines by Mrs. Jameson with many decorative designs by R. Anning Bell

This hugely influential book by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) presents a Victorian woman’s view of Shakespeare’s heroines as models...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

The story, which began life as ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’, was first told to Alice and her sisters, Lorina and Edith, on a trip...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

Vol IV of Lewis Carroll’s Diaries

On 4 July 1862 the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a professor of mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford, set out on a rowing...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

The Nursery Alice

The Nursery Alice, containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with text...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Robert Louis Stevenson - BONUS

The Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet Robert Louis Stevenson is perhaps most famous for his ‘boys’ book’ Treasure Island. Stevenson’s...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

George Lusk - RECYCLE

George Lusk was the Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. His name was printed on the numerous posters pasted up around...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Jackie - SHUFFLE

In 1888, 6 women were brutally murdered in the Whitechapel, East of London. The murderer, who had never been identified, was known as...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

William Morris - CLONE

William Morris is a designer, author, writer and visionary socialist. He was defined by the end of the twentieth century as a...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Christina Rossetti - REBOUND

Christina Rossetti was born in London in December 1830. Two of her bothers were members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and as a young...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Robert Anning Bell - STEAL

Robert Anning Bell was a versatile decorative artist who worked as an illustrator between 1889 and 1912. By the 1890s he had become an...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Luther Evans - SKIP

Luther Harris Evans is the tenth Librarian of Congress (1945-53) and the third director-general of the UNESCO. He is the one that brought...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Lewis Carroll - REVERSE

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted when publishing his famous children’s novels...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Alice Liddell - PROTECT

Alice Liddell, the prototype of the character Alice, was made famous by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in Alice's Adventures in...

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Oct 5, 20192 min read

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Story Once upon a time during the Victorian era, a mathematician and three little girls were on a boat trip in Oxford. The...

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Oct 5, 20191 min read

Arts and Crafts Movement

What was the Arts and Crafts Movement? In the mid-19th century Britain, there was an attempt to reform design and decoration, which later...

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