This week we're traveling back to Victorian England with the Limehouse Golem! Join us for a discussion of handwriting analysis, the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Dan Leno, Marx in London, and more!

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Background:

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limehouse_Golem Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_limehouse_golem IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4733640/ Upbeat Entertainment, Behind the Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0nH97gn7Y

Handwriting Analysis:

Jennifer L. Mnookin, "Scripting Expertise: The History of Handwriting Identification Evidence and the Judicial Construction of Reliability," Virginia Law Review 87:8 (December 2001): 1723-1845. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1073905 Douglas Grant, "Handwriting Analysis and the Police Officer," Police Journal 17:3 (July-September 1944): 203-211. Randall McGowen, "From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution," Past & Present 165 (Nov. 1999): 107-140. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651286 R.U. Piper, "The Laws of Evidence and the Scientific Investigation of Handwriting," The American Law Register 27:5, New Series Vol. 18 (May 1879): 273-291. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3304164 C. Ainsworth Mitchell, "Handwriting and its Value as Evidence," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 71: 3673 (April 13, 1923): 373-384. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41356145 Anna Lvovsky, "The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise," Harvard Law Review 130:8 (June 2017): 1995-2081. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44865645 Becky Little, "What Type of Criminal Are You? 19th-Century Doctors Claimed to Know by Your Face," History (8 August 2019). https://www.history.com/news/born-criminal-theory-criminology

The Ratcliffe Highway Murders: Macabre London, Ratcliffe Highway Murders: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macabre-london-podcast/id1180202350 The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Thames Police Museum: http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_1.html "Horror and Hysteria: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders," British Newspaper Archive Blog, https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/04/22/the-1811-ratcliff-highway-murders/

Karl Marx in London: "Take a Tour of Karl Marx's London," Penguin Random House: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/karl-marx-london-map.html Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, "Karl Marx's Life in London and Entry Into Active Politics," Great Courses Daily: https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/karl-marxs-life-in-london-and-entry-into-active-politics/ Solomon Bloom, "Karl Marx and the Jews," Jewish Social Studies 4, 1 (1942) Dennis Fischman, "The Jewish Question About Marx," Polity 21, 4 (1989) Sander Gilman, "Karl Marx and the Secret Language of Jews," Modern Judaism 4, 3 (1984) Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question," 1843. Full text available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/

Dan Leno:

Dan Leno, Dan Leno, Hys Booke: A Volume of Frivolities Autobiographical, Historical, Philosophical Anecdotal, and Nonsensical (London: Greening & Co., 1899). https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HGoqAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=Dan+Leno+music+hall&ots=5Os4N_GvX3&sig=IlBd7dZrKUu1r6UCXq1EnannJV4 J. Hickory Wood, Dan Leno (London: Methuen & Co., 1905). https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZrdYGrPAHOQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Dan+Leno+music+hall&ots=OE_QwxwaZ0&sig=adzACynIBodszVds7MWZuWU_Cd4 "Dan Leno -- Mrs. Kelly (1901)" https://youtu.be/ms-J7g0blVA "Dan Leno - The Tower of London (1901)" YouTube https://youtu.be/_HMpwzgRsho Wiki: "Songs, sketches and monologues of Dan Leno," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs,_sketches_and_monologues_of_Dan_Leno Peter Bailey, "Conspiracies of Meaning: Music-Hall and the Knowingness of Popular Culture," Past & Present 144 (August 1994): 138-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651146 Laurence Senelick, "Politics as Entertainment: Victorian Music-Hall Songs," Victorian Studies 19:2 (December 1975): 149-180. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3825910 The Dan Leno Project: http://www.danleno.co.uk/ David Cottis, "Leno, Dan," The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2005). James Hogg, "Leno, Dan [real name George Wild Galvin]," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (6 January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34497 Neil Armstrong, "Frank Skinner on Britain's first ever stand-up comedian" The Telegraph (3 December 2015). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/12021249/Frank-Skinner-on-Britains-first-ever-stand-up-comedian.html "The Birth of the Music Hall Tony Lidington, Dan Leno & Frank Skinner," YouTube Promenade Promotions https://youtu.be/KYEf6VSQBq0