In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the
world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a
new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome
of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very
different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether
world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of
the original City. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper
as a focal point, this book explores prostitution, poverty,
revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal
underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how
the sensationalist 'new journalism' took the news of the Ripper
murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This
is an important book for those interested in the history of
Victorian Britain.
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