Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.
- Professor of History, The Open University
Our morbid interest in the macabre never vanished – it was just displaced.
A panic erupted in Britain 126 years ago. At daybreak on Saturday September 8, the mutilated body of Annie Chapman, a prostitute, had been found in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Her…
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