Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were the women ...

Mr Armstrong was the master of the workhouse at St Mary’s in Newport on the Isle of Wight during the 1880s and 1890s. Without wishing to speak ill of the dead, it is safe to say he would not have won ...

We're back! With 2024's fan-voted round-ups out the way - that's both albums and songs, thank you very much - we can set our sights on the year ahead, and a world of new possibilities with bands ...

Tower Hamlets councillors have gone against their own officers and given the thumbs-up to a controversial Foster + Partners’ 41,000m² tower scheme in Whitechapel Planners at the east London authority ...

Whitechapel is CLEARLY going back to being way, way heavier. He continued: "The album follows the story of a cultist who is gathering worthy people to join his cult, and there are moments in the ...

Oh, how we’ve longed for this stench. Coming off their nasty 2024 single, “A Visceral Retch,” deathcore dominators Whitechapel have officially announced they have a new and ultra-heavy album on the ...

File image/AFP The mystery of the Jack the Ripper murders began on August 31, 1888, when the body of a dead woman was found in London’s Whitechapel street. Her throat had been cut and her abdomen ...

A shawl's DNA trail could finally unmask the killer behind London's 1888 Whitechapel horrors ... He entered a workhouse in 1889, where he was described on admission as "destitute." ...

Foster + Partners’ revised plans for a 41,000m² tower scheme on a corner site in Whitechapel, east London look set to be refused Since 2018, the practice has put forward numerous plans to demolish two ...

The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly murders terrorised the murky slums of Whitechapel in east London in 1888 ... had little option but to release Kosminski. He entered a workhouse in ...

The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly murders terrorized east London in 1888, has been a mystery ever since.