![]() ![]() Across the city the situation was very different. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. ![]() In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book explores prostitution, poverty. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of the original City. ![]()
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