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…
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, former MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and one of Britain’s most sought-after award ceremony hosts and after-dinner speakers. A veteran of QI and Have I Got News For You, a reporter on The One Show and a regular on Just…
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…
