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Speakers 2011

This a list of our speakers for 2011 - Watch this space for further up coming events.
The evening commences at 7.45pm with doors opening at 7.00pm.

The Anniversary of the Siege of Sidney Street: Saturday 5th Feb 2011

Presented By: Professor Clive Bloom

Date: Saturday 5th February 2010

Venue: The Aldgate Exchange public house, London E1
Nearest Underground - Aldgate East

Time: 7.30pm

On a blustery Friday night, at approximately 11.35 pm on the 16 December 1910, five policemen were gunned down by a gang of East European revolutionaries during a bungled raid on a jewellery shop. Foreign revolution had come for the first time to the streets of London.

Don't miss the first meeting of what promises to be another fantastic year at the Whitechapel Society. Non-members welcome!

(Further details of how to find us available on this website)

My Secret Life

Presented By: David Monaghan and Nigel Cawthorne

Date: Saturday 2nd April 2011

Venue: The Aldgate Exchange public house, London E1
Nearest Underground - Aldgate East

Time: 7.30pm

In 1888 a London gent known as Walter privately printed a million word sex memoir, My Secret Life. It's 11 volumes describe how an obsession with East End prostitutes grew into “letches” for rape, sadism and seeing blood spilt during sex. Authors David Monaghan and Nigel Cawthorne lift 100 years of censorship of the Walter sex diaries to find clues to the sexual motives behind the Whitechapel murders.

Isreal Lipsky - Guilty or Innocent?

Presented By: Bill Beadle and Mark Ripper

Date: Saturday 4th June 2011

Venue: The Aldgate Exchange public house, London E1
Nearest Underground - Aldgate East

Time: 7.30pm

Don’t miss this public debate with author Mark Ripper  putting the case for Lipsky’s guilt, and WS Chairman for his innocence.

Gang crime and the media in late nineteenth-century London: the Regent’s Park Murder of 1888

Presented by: Drew Gray
Date: Saturday August 6th 2011

Venue: The Aldgate Exchange public house, London E1
Nearest Underground - Aldgate East

Time: 7.30pm

1888 was a very good year for the newspapers and a particularly good year for murder news. The men of the Third Estate must have thought that all their Christmases had come at once when a seemingly deranged serial killer start murdering street prostitutes in London’s East End. The press revelled in the lurid details of the killings, made suggestions as to the identity of the culprit, published letters purporting to come from the killer himself and gave considerable space to criticisms of the police and their inability to catch ‘Jack the Ripper’.

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