🕯️ 1888 | Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel What you’re seeing: A lone figure in a long coat and top hat walks down a wet, gas lit street in Victorian London, echoing the East End at night during the Jack the Ripper murders. Who was Jack the Ripper? “Jack the Ripper” is the name given to an unknown killer blamed for a series of murders of women in Whitechapel in 1888, named after a letter sent to the press. Where did this happen? The murders took place in Whitechapel and nearby Spitalfields in London’s East End, a maze of overcrowded lodging houses, narrow alleys, and streets where many poor women sold sex to survive. What was London and Victorian England like at the time? London was the rich capital of a global empire, but the East End was marked by extreme poverty, overcrowding, disease, and anti-immigrant tension, especially toward recent Jewish arrivals. Why was wealth so uneven? Profits from industry and empire went mainly to factory owners, merchants, financiers, and landlords...