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GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of One-Armed Jack by Sarah Bax Horton: WHITECHAPEL
21st July 2024
We are delighted to be able to offer 3 copies in paperback (out 18 July 2024) of One-Armed Jack by Sarah Bax Horton – WHITECHAPEL – uncovering the real Jack the Ripper
UK ONLY
This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.
Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack the Ripper by linking eye-witness accounts of the killer’s distinctive physical characteristics to his official medical records. It argues that his broken left arm, which left him unable to work in early 1888, was one of his triggers to kill as part of a serious physical and mental decline caused by severe epilepsy.
This new perpetrator fits the profile as stated by the police of the day: a local man of low class of whom they became aware after the final murder, when they launched an unsuccessful surveillance operation against him. As has never been done before, the author – an experienced former government researcher with specific expertise in research and analysis – formulates a complete analysis of the killer and his methodology, including how he accosted his victims, where he took them to their deaths, his unique modus operandi of a blitz-style attack, and how he escaped from each crime scene without detection.
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- Just let us know in the Comments below by midnight, 3 August 2024 – “Would you like to go back and visit Victorian London, and if so why (or why not )”?
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WINNERS:
Jessica Campbell
Jo Jones
Teresa Adams
Yes, I’d love to go back to that era as it would be fascinating to see the clothing and the home decor
No, I think it was a terrible time in history. I’ll stick with 2024.
I would have liked to witness the new inventions that happened during the era, but only if I was one of the well off!
No I would not like to go back. So many diseases and deprivation. I am thankful to be living now.
Yes, briefly… Not a great time to be a woman but it would be great to see at Christmas time.
For a quick visit yes would love to wander around in the day time. I’d probably end up with cholera or TB within an hour though!
I would like to visit at Christmas time when Prince Albert started the tradition of Christmas trees. I would love to see a tradition Victorian Christmas
I’d like to go for a holiday to experience what it was like but I don’t think I’d survive without modern technology and medicine
No way. Apart from all the violence and diseases i think it would smell really bad.
Yes, I would love to go back and visit Victorian England. I would be extremely interested to see and understand the differences between what qualified as poverty then and poverty nowadays.
I wouldn’t like it. To much poverty for me although perhaps to just to have a quick look then return to my home comforts.
I think it would be a terrible time to live in compared to todays standards and levels of medicine, economics, human rights, quality of living and tech.
It would be interesting to stay and see how they lived in that era, but I would absolutely not want to stay in it!
No I would not! I’d imagine the quality of life in that period would be a shock to the system to anyone now.
For a quick visit to see what it’s like yes but I wouldn’t want to stay there long.
I’d like to see it, but I wouldn’t want to live in that era.
I would like to go back as I would love to see the faces of the victorians as they began to discover advancements in technology which we now take for granted but I would not want to live there
I would go back but only briefly just to see what life was like but I am quite happy to live in a time that allows women to vote lol
Only to experience it a little of it not to remain there
No I would not like to go back to Victorian times, I like my home comforts too much and times were hard for the workers of the time
yes, to look at their clothes
yes, to spend a day and see how people lived without all the tech we have now
I’d love to go back to those times and stay for a while. I’d like to see the wealthy and the poor
No way! We are too soft now to be able to cope with the living conditions of the majority in Victorian times. I would have problems in dealing with the conditions I faced as a 7 year old when Dad bought a house at auction for £600 in the 1950s. Gas lighting, no bathroom or even running water. One of my jobs was to pump it into the kitchen sink. My parents used to get larger amounts from the well in the yard and not forgetting the infamous outdoor earth closet. All of which has made me very appreciative of my current luxurious living conditions!
I would love to go back and see the fashion and the lovely buildings.
I would not like to go back to those times as people then did not live as long as we do now, I am 79.
Yes but only to see it as a ‘fly on the wall’ I like my modern comforts too much
I’d like to go back to see it, but not to stay!
no, never the 2020’s won’t be remembered kindly by historians but at least it’s better than Victorian Britain
I would love to go back and visit Victorian London for lots of reasons, one being it would be nice to have a little break from modern technology!
No, I don’t think I would. The Victorians achieved so much, but workers had it much harder in those days
No thanks, I would prefer the standard of living in my current era.
No ! I’d go back as a ghost otherwise it’s too scary and dangerous for me
I would go back as it really facinates me from reading like Sherlock Holmes, jack the ripper books and others stuff. I know it was a hard time with poverty, disease, poor hygiene ect but I love history and learning more about it. Plus who wouldn’t want to meet Sherlock
just a very quick visit. cause im nosey !
No way would I want to visit Victorian London. Germaphobe here!
I would like to go back for a quick visit only, as much as I find it fascinating I do like the luxuries we have now
I would love to go back if I could meet Sherlock Holmes!
I wouldn’t like to go back TOO MUCH POVERTY!
Not sure I would – it would be rather dirty
No, I would not like to go back, dirty and smelly streets and a lawless society
I wouldn’t like to go back as most people really struggled with poverty and lived in desperate conditions
I wouldn’t like to go back to Victorian London as Charles Dickens wrote in his book they where “Hard Times”
As tempting as it would be to see what life was like, I didn’t seem to be the best of times so may not inclined to find out!
I wouldn’t like to go back to Victorian London because of the dirty, smelly streets and the poverty.
It would be fascinating but a very hard life, so maybe just a very quick visit
Yes, I would. I have traced my family tree back to those times and I find it fascinating
I would love to visit, especially for the clothes! And I would like to see my house being built!
No, I wouldn’t like to go back. Poor hygiene and crowded living arrangements for people who didn’t have money.
No I don’t fancy the living conditions or toilets!
Absolutely not! Not everyone had access to good hygiene facilities or warm homes despite the emergence of household plumbing and early central heating systems.
Would be great to experience a different time line.
No antibiotics, mass poverty and few flushing lavatories. No, unless I could choose to stay for just an hour, I wouldn’t want to step back to the Victorian era!
No, I don’t think so. I find modern London exhausting to visit and I can’t imagine it would be much fun seeing the poverty on display.
I wouldn’t like to visit Victorian England. Society was much less favourable to women and minorities than it is now & disease was rampant. But the aesthetic is nice to admire.
No I would not like to go back in time to dirty smelly old Victorian London. While life may have been fine for the well off, my luck would be to live in the poor house and get paid 1 shilling if i was lucky for a full weeks work
I would like to go back to Victorian London so that I could attend a Frost Fair on the River Thames.
I’d love to read this book. However I would not like to go back in time to visit Victorian times. I’d be scared of getting ill and not being able to receive appropriate medical assistance!!
No way. It was a really hard time for everyone, unless you had plenty of money, (nothing changes). horrible diseases, filth everywhere. really a place I would not want to go to.
I would love to go back and visit Victorian London, this era in time has always fascinated me. Most of the people had such a hard way of life but true character.
Yes, would love to see the houses and talk to the people of that time.
No way. Too many diseases.
yes – it was a grim period for most people, especially in London, bute with deerstalker and cape could do a bit of investigation whilst I’m there.
No I would not like to visit Victorian Britain because of the poverty, disease and dirt.
I would love to experience a Victorian Christmas – in a well-to-do household of course – but I would also like to experience the lives of some of my not so well off ancestors.
I would enjoy a short trip back to the Victorian era, purely because it would be fascinating to see where a lot of our current social ideology came from. Especially, in regards to things like the birth of modern science and how this is linked to the contemporary phenomenon of the ‘serial killer’. Many of the themes and ideas we still find in horror and sci-fi fiction came from this era, and I would be fascinated to see the roots of these.
I would love to go back to Victorian London for the day. Would immerse myself in the culture and fashion of the time. I have a real interest in true crime and have participated in the Jack the Ripper walks in London many times, always imagining how the streets would have looked in that era. The Victorian age was so rich in literature and was a real turning point in history.
hell no, i like comfortable life
Yes I’d love to go back and see exactly what their rivers were like compared to today. All the work they did to improve them and how we have improved/not since then
No. It sounds a bit dangerous!
I would not like to go back to Victorian London because it was really dangerous, dirty and the clothes were so long for the women.
I would like to visit The Great Exhibition
No.
I would like to go back as a fly on the wall and watch but not be involved. I don’t think it was a good time to be a woman!
My great great grandfather was an early member of the Met Police and was working during the Ripper panic. I’d love to go back and see London at the time, although I wouldn’t want to stay too long – too much illness and desperate poverty! I wouldn’t mind promenading as a wealthy woman though!
Yes, great time for art and theatre, riding in carriages, fine clothes and unsolved murders!!!
Yes would love to go back, but only for a short time as it was a horrible time for everyone who didn’t have money.
Yes – as a rich person, to see what things were really like
I would like to go back to Victorian England but just for a flying visit, unless quite wealthy I think it would have been a very hard life.
Nope, not for me. It was a pretty lawless place and dangerous for all but the wealthy.
Would you like to go back and visit Victorian London, and if so why (or why not )”
not really as l feel there are more interesting eras to visit
I would love to visit Victorian London but not as a street urchin I am afraid. I would like to be there as a well to do type!
No, I think it could be very frightening times. Lots of diseases, not the medicine we have now. Long work hours. Not much to do in leisure times. No electricity.
I’d be curious (but no more) but would say no because of all the dirt!
Yes I definitely would. I’ve read so many Victorian era books I’d love to go back to see it for real.
Not really, it all sounds disease-ridden & a bit grim!
Wouldn’t mind a visit, via Time machine like Dr Who, but so many reasons not to want to have lived in those times; hygiene, lack of women’s rights, no NHS etc etc
No i wouldnt want to go back to them times they were so hard so much Poverty No Jobs People living in Squalors So many different diseases and no treatment .. No food to feed the Children No jobs No Money must of been so Hard we dont know how lucky we are today
No I wouldn’t want to go back to Victorian London times were tough and I couldn’t cope with the hardships of the times
I would go back to remind myself how lucky we are to be born this century and that kind of poverty is unknown now, although there is still a wide divide between the haves and have not still today.
I don’t think I would be able to handle the filth and poverty experienced by so many of the inhabitants.
I’d like to go back but only as one of the rich crowd
I would love to visit Victorian London and have done the Jack the Ripper tour. However life was very hard in those days and I would not like to endure all the hardships they faced
Yes, I’d love to go back and visit Victorian London but only if I could wear an invisibility cloak and return to the present at the time of my choosing! I’d like to see the contrast between the rich and the poor and see how filthy and smelly London actually was!
Think I would miss my creature comforts – indoor toilet, electricity, risk of getting horrible diseases, etc. etc.
and in addition to my previous comment, Limehouse was Jack territory!
Would love to go back to the East End and see where my great grandparents and grandparents lived on Burdett Road and Garfield Street in Limehouse.
I would love to, for the experience. However, as a type 1 diabetic, I could not stay long 😉
I would love to go back to Victorian Britain to wear those lovely dresses and for a simpler life.
I remember reading that there was one word to put one off visiting the Victorian period- dentistry. I would still like to go to see how my forebears lived, but not to have my teeth examined.
I am a little obsessed by Jack the Ripper and anything to do with the history of the area, so the answer is definitely yes yes yes!
I’ve been to the museum and explored Whitechapel but I’m sure a second visit would be just as interesting!
I would love to visit Victorian London as a time traveller, but would keep away from the less salubrious areas, if possible! Always fascinated by this period since reading Dickens.
Would be scared to go to the slums I’m afraid I’m a bit timid but a fine country house would be lovely x