We are pleased to bring to you the August 2021 guest speaker at the Whitechapel Society:

Dr Andrea Nini- A forensic linguistic analysis of the Jack the Ripper letters

Dr Andrea Nini is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. In 2018, Dr. Nini published An Authorship analysis of the Jack the Ripper letters in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, in which he analyzed 209 letters and postcards sent to police and newspapers that claimed to have been written by ‘Jack the Ripper’ and concluded that several were journalistic hoaxes, supporting the claims made by Sir Robert Anderson, Melville Macnaughten and Detective Chief Inspector Littlechild.

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We are pleased to welcome to the show Richard Jones and Adam Wood, the authors of the excellent series of self-guided tour books 'Edgar's Walking Guides'

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Hosted by Jonathan Menges and Jon Lee Rees

Karl Coppack welcomes back to the show Janis Wilson to discuss the next story from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon:

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual

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We are pleased to bring to you the June 2021 guest speaker at the Whitechapel Society:

Daniel Smith, the author of The Peer and the Gangster: A Very British Cover-up.

In July 1964, the Sunday Mirror ran a front-page story headlined: PEER AND A GANGSTER: YARD ENQUIRY. While the article withheld the names of the subjects, the newspaper reported that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police had ordered an investigation into an alleged homosexual relationship between ‘a household name’ from the House of Lords and a leading figure in the London underworld. Lord Boothby was the Conservative lord in question, and Ronnie Kray the infamous gangster. Yet within a couple of weeks the story had been killed off, vanishing as suddenly as it had appeared. Lord Boothby and the Krays carried on with business as usual. For the first time the full saga of the cover-up and its consequences can be revealed. Drawing upon recently released MI5 files, government papers, extensive interviews, and a wide array of contemporary reports and secondary sources, Daniel Smith pieces together how eminent figures from the political firmament, the Security Service, the Metropolitan Police, the legal profession and the media saw to it that the Sunday Mirror’s story was crushed almost as soon as it emerged.

https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-peer-and-the-gangster/9780750993296/

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Karl Coppack welcomes guest Nicholas Utechin to the show to discuss the next story from the Sherlock Holmes canon:

The Adventure of the Gloria Scott

Nicholas Utechin is the author of several books on Sherlock Holmes including Adventures Beyond the Canon, Sherlock Holmes-Amazing and Extraordinary Facts, and Sherlock Holmes at Oxford.

In this episode Karl welcomes Lesley Quinn to the show to discuss the next story in the Doyle canon:

The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk

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Karl Coppack welcomes author Paul Miller to discuss the next story in the Arthur Conan Doyle canon:

The Adventure of the Yellow Face

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Karl Coppack welcomes Marisa and Sarah, the hosts of The However Improbable podcast, to discuss the next story in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon:

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

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We are pleased to bring to you the February 2021 meeting of The Whitechapel Society:

The Houndsditch Murders

Former City of London Police officer, historian and tour guide Peter Clarke presents a detailed overview of the Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sidney Street

Followed by Sue Parry sharing with us an incredible scrapbook belonging to the family of wounded Officer William Bryant, full of letters, cards and memorabilia relating to his involvement in the tragic incident.

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Jonathan Menges, Tom Wescott and Jon Rees welcome author Mark Russell to the show to discuss his book

Checkmate: The Wallace Murder Mystery

https://mangobooks.co.uk/products/checkmate-the-wallace-murder-mystery