Author: Eduardo Zinna
Sunday, 22 December 2002 - 05:26 pm |        |
Chris,
Very useful research. Here as well as in other threads. Thank you.
EZ |
Author: chris scott
Sunday, 22 December 2002 - 05:43 pm | |
Thanks Eduardo
Glad you find them useful:-)
Chris |
Author: chris scott
Thursday, 02 January 2003 - 02:04 pm | |
A site called jack the Ripper - Encrypted Proclamation of the Fake Apocalypse
Make of it what you will!!!
http://www.econcrisis.homestead.com/JTRhub.html |
Author: chris scott
Thursday, 02 January 2003 - 02:14 pm | |
http://www.newble.co.uk/anderson/index.html
A site about Robert Anderson. Much religious content but includes interesting bigraphy by Anderson's son |
Author: chris scott
Thursday, 02 January 2003 - 02:21 pm | |
http://www.redflame93.com/Aberconway.html
Interesting account of the friendship between Christabel Aberconway and Aleister Crowley
CS |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 11:23 am | |
http://www.victorianlondon.org/index1.htm
Very useful resource about Victorian London
CS |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 11:30 am | |
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm#Friern
Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
Based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 11:49 am | |
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/ lma/pdf/hospital_patients.PDF
Records of patients in London hospitals
Lots of useful advice for accessing and searching records
CS |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 11:51 am | |
http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/index.html
Rossbret workhouse website - a very useful resource
CS |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 11:54 am | |
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/applications/family-research/registerSearchForm.asp
Searchable database for City of London records
CD |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 12:14 pm | |
http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/pubs.html
Comprehensive listing of Vicotian public houses in London
CS |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 01:11 pm | |
http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/
Victorian Research Web
Look at the Research resources list - some very useful stuff here
CS |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 01:21 pm | |
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
The Internet Library of Early Journals
Very impresssive site- one to keep an eye on as later 19th century journals come on line
CS |
Author: chris scott
Friday, 03 January 2003 - 01:28 pm | |
http://freecen.rootsweb.com/
ongoing project to combine in one database all UK census data from 1841 to 1891
and they are looking for volunteers!!!
CS |
Author: Eduardo Zinna
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 06:23 am | |
Chris,
Thank you again for your efforts to bring all these wonderful sites to the attention of Casebook visitors. I hope you will compile a list of these sites in a less ephemeral location than the Message Boards.
Regards,
Eduardo |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 07:12 pm | |
Odd resource this time but thought it might amuse some:-)
http://bbc.net.uk/london/travel/jamcams/camloco/044301.shtml
Live "jam cams" i.e. live webcams to allow traffic conditions to be seen. One covers Whitechapel High street and one Shoreditch High St
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 07:24 pm | |
http://www.londonjewishtours.com/background.htm
Some interesting pics here of whitechapel locations that Ive not seen before, including an old pic of Black Lion Yard (Aaron Kosminski territory)
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 07:52 pm | |
http://strandmagazine.tvheaven.com/Backissues.html
Sherlock Holmes takes on the Ripper!! |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:12 pm | |
http://www.whitechapel.org.uk/1921.htm
The 1921 report from the Working lads Institute (site of inquests) and pic of the building
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:17 pm | |
http://www.whitechapel.org.uk/1897.htm
The 1897 report for Working Lads Institute
Good cover illustration of site of the inquests
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:33 pm | |
http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/bc-tower-w.htm
Good large scale Whitechapel map from 1885
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:34 pm | |
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH35/haggard1.html
A learned essay entitled
Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London
Robert F. Haggard
well worth a read and well annotated
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:44 pm | |
http://members.aol.com/cpauk/cpahist.htm
Some background to Catherine Gurney and her role in the setting up of the Southern Police Convalescent Home at Hove (mentioned in the Swanson marginalia) |
Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:48 pm | |
library.wellcome.ac.uk/collections/ pdf/BritishArchitecturalLib.pdf
Listing of the British Aruchitectiral Librbary which includes two photos of the Police Convalsecent Home at Hove
Sadly these are not on line
Chris S |
Author: Dan Norder
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:54 pm | |
The Sherlock Holmes one I saw before... too bad he foolishly goes for the infamous conspiracy theory and writes little side remarks on the site attacking anyone who doesn't believe that it was literally true.
He's also very sloppy with the writing and plotting. He was them calling the murderer Jack the Ripper before the double event, obviously before the Dear Boss letter with that nickname arrived, for example.
I just can't see the world's greatest detective bumbling long making such stupid mistakes.
Dan
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Author: chris scott
Monday, 06 January 2003 - 08:57 pm | |
http://www.bluelamp.net/flinthouse/text/AboutUs.html
This confirms that Police Convalescent home was opened in Hove in 1890. This has since been renamed Police Rehabilitation Centre and since 1988 has been based in Goring, Oxford
Chris S |
Author: Philip Rayner
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 05:25 am | |
Chris, do you ever have time to eat my freind, you seem to spend most of your time seeking out interesting sites for our delectation. One in particular drew my attention.
It was the Jewish tours site http://www.londonjewishtours.com/background.htm
On opening this site I was presented with a list of celebrities and so on hailing from the east end. Among the list was Claire Rayner. Now I have put up with the 'Is she your mum?' comments all my life. I had never seriously considered the fact we may be related before but some recent information on my Great grandfather has set every genealogical nerve a twitching.
I have mentioned in my posts before that in the 1881 census, Robert Rayner (The gent in question.) Was living in Mile End (Not far from Whitechapel.) This site quite plainly states that claire's ancestors were also from the east end. Far from a link I know but worthy of some investigation. Incidentally the name Rayner is quite common in London in the 1880's.
Thanks for drawing this to my attention. |
Author: Billy Markland
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 08:41 am | |
Two good articles dealing with aspects of the Whitechapel murders can be found at the Making of America electronic library at Cornell University (I haven't had time to check the MOA site at the University of Michigan).
The first, entitled The Bloodhound by Edwin Brough deals with the advantages and disadvantages of using bloodhounds in an urban setting and bloodhounds in general.
The other by a noted psychologist of the era, William A. Hammond entitled Madness and Murder deals with insanity and murder (as the title says) and gives his own take of the case near the end of the article.
There are other good articles at this site dealing with poverty in the East End were Whitechapel is mentioned specifically.
The URLs to the specific articles are too long to cut and paste. The URL for MOA at Cornell is:
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Go to the Search page, click on Journals Only, then input the Keyword Whitechapel. Set the year range to 1885-1890 and Enter. You should come up with 151 hits in 83 journals. As stated, several deal with the poverty of East London, but the other two on my search were numbers 5 and 19.
Best of wishes,
Billy |
Author: Christopher T George
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 08:53 am | |
Hi, all:
Here's a site with some links and illustrations for Victorian painter Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
http://tomwgrim.home.texas.net/AtkinsonGrim.htm
Check out his atmospheric cityscape scenes of the Liverpool docks which give a good idea of how Whitechapel must have looked in 1888, see below.
Atkinson Grimshaw, Liverpool (1875)
All the best
Chris |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 09:06 am | |
Hi Philip
Thanks for the comments:-)
I enjoyed the Jewish Tours site cos there were some archive pics I hadnt seen elsewhere
Hope the site is of use in your own family researches
And yes I do get time to eat - too much recently!
All the best
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 11:50 am | |
http://www.patriciacornwell.com/
I trust some folks will have seen this but in case you havent its the official site set up bt PC to deal specifically with issues from her recent book
Chris S |
Author: Philip Rayner
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:00 pm | |
Just looked at the Cornwell website
OK OK so the paper came from the same 24 sheet batch but can she prove that the Ripper letter was from JTR. She has never proved that point.
Too little, too late. |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:01 pm | |
http://johnno.casebook.org/photos.html
Again I assume most people have seen this site but if you havent the East End photos are a must see
Chris S |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:26 pm | |
http://www.19princeletstreet.org.uk/
Campaign to save an historic building in Princelet Street, Spitalfields
CS |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:27 pm | |
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/hamilton/h0-2001.htm
King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
This site mentions private diaries of Walter Sickert - does anyone know what these contain?
CS |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:29 pm | |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/ripper/
Good summary of the "case" against Sickert from the BBC site |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:32 pm | |
http://www.redflame93.com/JacktheRipper.html
This story was originally published as a short pamphlet titled Did Aleister Crowley know the Identity of Jack the Ripper? by J. Edward Cornelius in December 1993
CS |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:40 pm | |
http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/authors2001/john01/chim01/review.htm
Review of the novel "The Chime" by Clive Johnson and its relation to Cornwells's work
CS |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:41 pm | |
http://www.zeal.com/category/preview.jhtml?cid=562373
Lots of links to Jack related articles. Plenty to read here including an excellent resume of evidence relating to the diary
CS |
Author: chris scott
Tuesday, 07 January 2003 - 12:45 pm | |
http://www.tasc.ac.uk/histcourse/suffrage/document/averawoa.htm
Info on the life and family background of Helena Swanwick (sister of Walter Sickert)
CS |
