The Worst Street in London
by Fiona Rule
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The first book to reveal the remarkable and tragic story of London's Dorset Street - the worst street in London.Tags
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An excellent overview of Dorset Street, once dubbed 'the worst street in London', and the surrounding Spitalfields area. Rule traces the area's history, from its beginnings as a rural retreat to its acme as a wealthy silk-weaving district and its slow slide into poverty and violence.
This is something of an antidote to most books on Jack the Ripper, which tend to focus almost exclusively on the murders and the suspects. This is an exploration of the lives the people of Spitalfields and Whitechapel actually led, and the misery and squalor that shocked a nation in the wake of the Whitechapel murders.
This is something of an antidote to most books on Jack the Ripper, which tend to focus almost exclusively on the murders and the suspects. This is an exploration of the lives the people of Spitalfields and Whitechapel actually led, and the misery and squalor that shocked a nation in the wake of the Whitechapel murders.
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Fiona Rule is a London historian. After completing a local history diploma at the University of Oxford she began to specialise in historical writing and research. Her previous books include London's Docklands (Ian Allan, 2009) and the The Oldest House in London (The History Press, 2017).
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- Jack the Ripper
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- London, England, UK
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