Synopsis
The setting and context in which the murders in Whitechapel were committed.
- Programme: Timewatch
- Episode: Shadow of the Ripper
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1988
- History | Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000-present | Whitechapel, c1870-c1900: crime, policing and the inner city | Whitechapel, c1870-c1900: crime, policing and the inner city
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