Our London Talks: Jack the Ripper and the East End

Presented by: Oxford House in Bethnal Green

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0	LONDON : Oxford House Theatre
P	Wednesday 28th September, 2016
N	7:30pm

Event information

The East End has almost become a Jack the Ripper theme park. There are barbers, chip-shops and pubs with a Ripper theme plus a controversial museum dedicated to the supposed killer of five (or more) women in Whitechapel in 1888. Hundreds of people tour the area daily visiting the sites of the murders and books on the crimes and identity of the Ripper are constantly getting published.

What does the Ripper industry say about the women who were murdered? What does it say about the people and history of the East End as a whole and what is it about the mystery and crimes of ‘Jack the Ripper’ that draws such intense fascination? Who or what is Jack the Ripper? Man, myth or misogyny?

Oxford House, in partnership with Londonist, have gathered a broad range of people involved in historical research and present-day activity to discuss what Jack the Ripper represents to them, to London and to Londoners.