It was Saturday, 26 May 1888, and William Pierrepoint had not paid his rent for six weeks. His landlady Sophia Moon had been sympathetic at first – he had lost his job as a wheelwright and had a wife and two children to look after – but he now owed… You must be a paid …
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Year of the Ripper: Susannah Barrell
Robert and Susannah Barrell had been happily married for 22 years. They ran the Bancroft Arms Tavern together at 1 Moody Street, Mile End, and lived there with their four children. On Sunday July 1 they went to bed in good spirits. The next morning at a quarter-to-nine the eldest… You must be a paid …
Year of the Ripper: William Hall
In the late 19th century the postal service was in the middle of a boom period and was making more than £3m a year net profit. ore than 100,000 people worked for the Post Office collecting, sorting and delivering 70 items of mail per person per year – after all,… You must be a paid …
Year of the Ripper: William Walker
On the night of Saturday 30 June 1888, William Walker, a 24 year-old labourer, and Robert Hodges, a 37 year-old ‘hawker’ or street seller, had been having a drink together in the Cooper’s Arms at 16 Sun Street, Finsbury, just outside the City of London. Walker owed Hodges a shilling… You must be a paid …
Cold War Assassination: The Umbrella Murder of Georgi Markov
Georgi Markov was poisoned on Waterloo Bridge in 1978 by an assassin who may have been working for the KGB. The 49-year-old Bulgarian writer and journalist had defected from his communist homeland in 1969 and had started a new life in London working for the BBC World Service. On 7 September 1978 he was waiting …
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