Jack the Ripper Retold
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Role of the Newspapers in the Ripper Murders
The murders themselves were talking autumn of 18 88. So the newspapers were looking for these stories, but was there something usual from them? Was this unusual? To a greater or lesser extent, it was more sensational. But also, what i think is so interesting about this is that this story travelled internationally in a way that we hadn't really seen before. People were reading about the repermonas in new york, in australia, in france. In all parts of the world, people were curious about this,. Because these were really heinous crimes. And because the police were unable to identify the killer, to catch somebody, it then took on an even greater kind of almost supernatural
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