THE WHITECHAPEL SOCIETY ‘VICTIMS’ EVENT AT HANBURY HALL, HANBURY STREET, LONDON. NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCED – LOUISE RAW “Striking a Light: East End Women. Bow Matchwomen, East London Suffragettes, women at Cable Street in 1936, war workers; the women and girls of the East End have a long history of making history! Hear how they stood…
THE INTERIM MEETING 6 JANUARY 2018 Steve Rattey The idea of including an afternoon event evolved from a group visit to the graves of the ‘canonical five’ last year. I am very keen to raise the profile of the interim meetings, and have taken it upon myself to organise these afternoon events. But the decision…
The Whitechapel Society will hold it’s AGM on Saturday 2nd December from 6pm at The Chamberlain Hotel on Minories. In previous years we have held a BGM on alternate years but following on from members feedback we have now changed this to be an AGM. Please see below a list of committee positions which are…
The subject for the July interim meeting was Montague Druitt, but as people gathered at the table, different subjects were bounced about a fair bit. These included; the terror attack in Borough (which took place as some members left the June meeting.) and Chic at Glastonbury, which led to speculation that it might have been…
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 7th GEORGE FLEMING AT THE WS George Fleming of HISTORY AT LARGE is an historian, writer, theatrical director and actor. Anyone who came to the Salisbury Conference and assisted at his mock trial centred on the Maybrick diary will already be familiar with George’s approach to historical events including true crime. With this…
21 Years of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Society by The Whitechapel Society First formed in 1995, the Whitechapel Society strives to promote the study of the crimes of Jack the Ripper and the social history of London’s East End in the Victorian and early Edwardian eras. Since then, some of the finest Ripper resarchers and…
Saturday 3rd Dec 2pm-4pm: Visit to the Bishopsgate Institute including seeing The Ted Ball Collection. Cost £2. 7pm-late: Christmas meeting of The WS at The Chamberlain Hotel. Auction of books (details to follow), launch of the new Whitechapel Society book, Quiz, Entertainment. The best leather apron competition. Entry free for WS members, guests pay £5 on the door. Sunday…
Before getting onto the pre-arranged topic of discussion of the night several matters were examined. Extending from Leicester City’s success in the football league to the April meeting to how fantastic it was to have a Victorian serial killer present on the night and Tony Power’s fantastic intro. In addition was conversation about The Hairy…
