Thank you for returning these poor women’s humanity to them. It’s so easy to forget these poor souls were real people with families and their own stories and struggles.

@Live0nnn

6 ай бұрын

Read a great book recently, called 'The Five' (Hallie Rubenhold). It's entirely the stories of the lives of the five women, with little to mention of the Ripper. Really interesting, and as you say, it returns a good deal of humanity to these women.

@heathernikki5734

2 ай бұрын

@@Live0nnnI’ll check it out! Thank you

I live in Canada, and my grandmother was from East London. Emigrated to Canada as a young woman, am guessing around late1800’s. Her uncle was a policeman in the force in Whitechapel. He discovered the body of Catherine Eddowes. His name was Watkins, it is in the articles on the murders. It is so heartbreaking that people could be on the street just to survive. An existence, not a life.

@thehistorysquad

8 ай бұрын

Gosh, that's interesting 👍🏻

@blazbratovic2724

5 ай бұрын

And the guy who Watkins & company have been searching for was Charles Allen Lechmere (also Charles Cross at the inquest). :) QC James Scobie agrees the case against him is strong enough to go to the modern murder trial.

@A_Stereotypical_Heretic

5 ай бұрын

Great grandmother you mean?

@jhoughjr1

Ай бұрын

Those times have alreadt returned.

@kaprivenom5316

Күн бұрын

Nice to hear.

The thing which amazes me the most about the Jack The Ripper case is, the children of the victims were alive as late as the early 1970s. It makes the Jack the Ripper case feel so much closer to us.

@cindys.9688

3 ай бұрын

Never thought of that 🤔

@Emma-mk8jv

2 ай бұрын

Holy crap!

Thanks for this film. Everyone seems to focus on the disgusting killers, it’s good to see insight into the victims and poverty that lead them into these circumstances.

@babbybailey2534

Жыл бұрын

All because in the cases of not having the four pence, very sad indeed.

@panicmerchants

Жыл бұрын

Indeed

@gb3007

Жыл бұрын

It's all linked, you have to look at the social circumstances that not only led to these women's unfortunate demise but also created such a person as the Ripper.

@Screwball70

Жыл бұрын

You have worn some hats in your journey through life young sir, a soldier a police man, a historian at Warwick castle and now a film maker/historian. You are an impressive man Kevin and I doff my hat to you sir.

@Dr.HooWho

Жыл бұрын

I mean they wanna know the ripper well since he barely has any identity but there isnt really much to learn after that considering it would just be theories honestly

Beautifully stated. There are tears in my eyes because Mr. Hicks spoke of each victim with dignity. He cannot give them their lives back, but he gave them their identities beyond victims. Mr. Hicks doesn’t speak of their injuries in a sensationalized manner; he describes the horror these women went through only after speaking about who they were and reminding us that they were real people who were once someone’s child, a mother, a human being. Thank you, Mr. Hicks. You are a true gentleman.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

That's very kind, thank you too. 👍🏻

@1C3CR34M

Ай бұрын

@@thehistorysquadHello Mr. Hicks, I’m not sure you may see this, as you get quite a few comments on your videos. But you have created in my opinion, one the most entertaining yet informative channels on KZread. I find myself watching tonnes of your videos in the background at work, and it’s honestly amazing to try to imagine the diorama or model you’re describing, then look down at my phone to see how close my imagination was. Thank you sir!

@thehistorysquad

Ай бұрын

@@1C3CR34M Hello and thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos and appreciate you watching 👍🏻

Thank you for a video that humanizes the victims of these crimes so thoroughly. People tend to focus more on murderers than on the men and women whose lives have been cut short by them, and there's a really disgusting habit of completely dismissing those lives when the victims were homeless or "just prostitutes," as if the rest of us couldn't find ourselves in the same situation if our luck had been worse. So this video was really a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of true crime content. It really is much appreciated.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kat 👍🏻

@Katherine_The_Okay

Жыл бұрын

@@thehistorysquad And thank you for your compassionate and thorough approach. When I have time later in the week, I'm looking forward to checking out some of your channel's other offerings. I love finding new history-tubers who treat people from the past like actual people instead of othering them.

@Algorithm_work_your_magic

8 ай бұрын

Weird, I was just thinking about The ripper crimes just 2 days ago, never typed anything in, never mentioned it to anyone and now thks pops into my suggestion list

@maryfreebed9886

8 ай бұрын

This stupid, horrible stuff still happens. The police still barely care. Robert Pickton did similar stuff and got away with it for years. Eventually they got hold of him, yes, but only after many more unnecessary murders.

@A_Stereotypical_Heretic

5 ай бұрын

​@@Algorithm_work_your_magicwell your name says it all

It must have been terrifying knowing that a vicious murderer was walking the streets. My Mother's parents were both born in the East End of London around the time of those murders. Mum told me about the terrible poverty she saw in the East End when she was a child in the 1920s. I feel that history is closer than we sometimes realise.

@heathernikki5734

2 ай бұрын

Yes these women were alive when my great great grandmother was 3 and she lived until 1985. It seems like such a long time ago but it really wasn’t

I have a family member whose friend was murdered, she told me what happened. Sadly the girl's father found her in her apartment and he has never been the same. He was a retired detective but he was so distraught he was medicated heavily for months. At the funeral everyone was suspicious of her ex and some blamed him on the spot. They found her killer a few months later, it was a stranger that just thought she was pretty so followed her home. She lost her life just because someone found her attractive...

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Sadly a common story. Thanks for sharing that 👍🏻

@paulredinger5830

Жыл бұрын

How terrible. I’m sorry for your families friend.

@sueaddison9958

Жыл бұрын

😧😔😔😔😪😪🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@the_rover1

Жыл бұрын

dreadful. was the stranger from abroad origin, like near or middle east? here in central europe, quite a lot (certainly not all of them!) of capital crimes and [the bad r-word that rhymes on grape] happen by asylum seeking persons who are invited by irresponsible EU politicians.

@unclebounce1495

Жыл бұрын

@@the_rover1 but but but you're not allowed to speak the truth. that's offensive!

Excellent video. I’m a new watcher from across the pond. I used to be a human remains detection dog handler who worked all over. I appreciate your background and your ability to bring the past alive while maintaining the dignity of the victims. Thank you so much for the wonderful history lessons.

@kaylagray7935

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's a unique specialty! I'm sure you have some stories to tell!

@auntievenom9619

Жыл бұрын

@@kaylagray7935 for sure! I spent three years in Iraq.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

That's kind Lyn, thanks for watching & welcome to the channel 👍🏻

@rizmark5522

Жыл бұрын

Your American Serial killer H H Homes was in Whitechapel at the same time as the murders. His name was recorded in a ships log that docked from New York! A women called Elizabeth Long last saw Annie Chapman talking to an adult male on Hanbury street and I think he resembled your H H Homes. He was dark. She described him as wearing a brown deer-stalker hat, and she thought he had on a dark coat, but was not quite certain of that. She could not say what the age of the man was, but he looked to be over 40, and appeared to be a little taller than deceased. He appeared to be a foreigner, and had a 'shabby genteel' appearance. Witness could hear them talking loudly, and she overheard him say to the woman, "Will you?" to which she replied, "Yes." Another witness described the suspect as having mustache just like A A Homes.

@chrisdooley1184

Жыл бұрын

Wow I bet you have some interesting stories!

I love the respect with which you have treated the victims. It is the most respectful video I have seen about the case. We cannot forget that they were human beings. Congratulations :)

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@stephaniebake417

9 ай бұрын

Thank you fore your time Bless you

I've read, heard and watched innumerable historical accounts of the Ripper over the years. This is the first real investigation I've seen into the lives and circumstances of era. Your description of life in White Chapel at the time was simultaneously educational, shocking, revealing, and heartbreaking. Thanks for making the horrific events more three dimensional.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's so kind of you Julie, thank you.

Kevin, your story telling abilities are fantastic. This was a tragic tale that was hard to listen to, but executed perfectly.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you so much!

Thank you for shining a light on these poor women, they deserve to be seen as people who lived and breathed....not as tabloid gruesome victims

I read a book on the 'five canonical victims', they all had very sad lives . The one that really stood out and actually made me tearful was Katherine Eddowes . She sadly didn't have much of a settled life and came from Wolverhampton and at one time lived in Bilston Street before her return to London. They were not just 'prostitutes'. What a truthful way of telling these ladies stories . Thank you so much. And cheers .👍🍻

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, it's a reproduction for sure. I don't have the budget, or the heart, to test on an original 😜

@edp3202

Жыл бұрын

Like the Gilgo Beach victims in NY. Those women mattered.

@Elly3981

Жыл бұрын

Catherine Eddows actually did have a normal job as a housekeeper for a wealthy family but was fired for her excessive drinking.

@keithbate9405

Жыл бұрын

Katherine Eddowes was born in Merridale Street only a quarter of a mile from where I currently live. There is now a Caribbean church where the house stood in the Graisley area of Wolverhampton . There is a blue plaque on the outside of the church building stating that the site was the birthplace of Katherine E.

@edp3202

Жыл бұрын

@@keithbate9405 you wonder why the monster ripped these women apart. Where the rage came from.

Really love how you did the Gin history before this. It sets to the tone how dire everything was during that time. I would imagine living in poverty looking for an easy escape from sleeping shoulder to shoulder with strangers would drive a lot of folks to alcohol.

@tomservo5347

9 ай бұрын

I couldn't imagine living hand to mouth at every moment. Illness, injury and any number of misfortunes would upset this meager scratching by. I've read the workhouses were dreaded places used only by the desperate and hopeless. The workhouse was the very bottom so I can imagine why prostitution was preferable to where these unfortunate ladies had some way independence. Booze was the only escape from this squalid surviving-not living. From what I've read Mary Kelly was actually quite pretty and used to be an 'upper echelon' lady of the night with gentlemen and wealthy clients. But her drinking made her volatile and it was beginning to take a toll on her looks so in streets of Whitechapel began her downward slide. We'll never know what she looked like because the killer went absolutely beyond anything we can imagine in his bloodlust. I hope God grants these women eternal peace.

Thank you for giving a bit of life to the victims of these horrific crimes. So much focus is placed upon the deeds and doer that I think that people forget that the victims were actual human beings not just the sum of the offenses committed upon them.

The gin issue back then is the same as the drug issue on our streets today. It devastates lives and condemns people to a life of poverty and hardship. It's sad no one wants to be an alcoholic or an addict but circumstances lead people into it.

@nicolamchugh7154

8 ай бұрын

V true

@numberstation

8 ай бұрын

A very large proportion of people with drug or alcohol dependency are living with the memory of past trauma or abuse. Drugs or alcohol are a short term coping mechanism even though they often destroy those who are desperate to forget. Hunger or homelessness comes second to blotting out their memories.

@nicolamchugh7154

8 ай бұрын

@@numberstation absolutely,

@lindanorris2455

7 ай бұрын

RIGHT ON!

Even as morbid as the story was, I found it intriguing. You are a true oral wordsmith.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Steven, that's very kind.

Oh good grief Kev, I knew of the Jack the ripper killings but you telling the story has really just highlighted just how unfortunate those poor girls were, absolutely terrible... Feel so sorry for them.

You breathed life into these ladies. They loved and were loved by someone.

Thank you for putting the focus where it belongs; on the lives cut so horribly short. These women had tough lives and deserve to be remembered.

The story of Jack the Ripper is such a pure distillation of the worst of Victorian England. Violence, murder, poverty, drunkenness, injustice, and government apathy, all in one.

I'm thankful for this video. It's the lives of these women that I've always been most interested in, rather than speculating over who committed the murders. Rest their souls.

Thanks Kevin. I have always been fascinated by the Irish immigrants. The poorest of the poor who struggled through poverty and discrimination.

@thehistorysquad

9 ай бұрын

It's such a tragedy because you had the poorest of the poor in Ireland moving in with the poorest of the poor in London, a recipe to make every even more poor. It really was awful. 👍🏻

@ainekearney9041

8 ай бұрын

The Irish where made poor on purpose by policy of the british government. Only for america we would have been wiped off the face of the earth. It was not long after the Great famine. Once they had more to travel futher they did or the english landlords paid a bit more to clear them off the land in Ireland. No Irish person wanted to go to England. The sorrow visited on Ireland by the British Empire was horrendous no wonder James Joyce said the alantic ocean was made from the tears of the Irish.

@MsBoujeeGisele

8 ай бұрын

​@@thehistorysquadThat's why Glasgow , is known as Glasgow Irish.

@MsBoujeeGisele

8 ай бұрын

​@@ainekearney9041 Yup Genocide by the British. They say famine " nope it was Genocide.

@theseeker4642

7 ай бұрын

​​​@@ainekearney9041The wealthy were no less cruel to the poor & impoverished of Britain, who used to be transported to the " new world " as a way of solving the poor problem, whenever the rich thought there were too many poor about. The Irish certainly suffered, but no more than their British counterparts. My own lawless Scottish Lowland Clan, was amongst the many who were rounded up & transported to the " new world ", the Scottish Border Reivers Clans & the English Reiver Families. The men were renowned light horsemen & sent to Belgium to fight for a King they didn't recognise, sent to die in the bogs of Ireland, sent to work the plantations or other work as indentured slaves to the " new world. " Their lands were taken by the rich & those that remained, were made indentured slaves to that rich family & put to work on what had been their own land ! Many were simply hung ! The Border Reivers on both sides, did not recognise the Scottish or the English Kings, their allegiance was to their Clan or Family. The wealthy, looked upon those who weren't as sub human !

It's really sad how alcohol and poverty are still so intertwined. Great doco, looking at the lives of the victims and how they lived, as well as how they died.

Thanks for that Kev, it makes a refreshing change to hear about the lives of the victims instead of concentrating on the unknown perpetrator. Hard times indeed for those who had to live at this level in society (and it didn't improve much for a long while).

What a sad existence for these women they never stood a chance 😔

Yup... many people were invisible due to poverty in Victorian England. My grandparents escaped grinding poverty and a stint in the workhouse in Manchester... came to Canada and founded a family (and descendants that now are over 100 strong) It's sad that many didn't escape being invisible.

Thank you for this documentary, for all the little details you included that made these ladies and their lives more real. And thank you for treating these women with more respect and empathy than most.

Kevin, thank you for opening the stories of these women in such a compassionate way.They were brave for just making it through another night and then day. I will always think of them first before I think of their tragic ends.lThank you for opening my mind. and heart to the plight of these ladies. More brave than I could ever imagine. But for the grace of God, go any of us.❤

An excellent book on the lives of the victims, The Five, by Hallie Rubenhold, is a very interesting read. The author has done some incredible detective work.....Another great video, Kev.

@katzzcradle

Жыл бұрын

This book is very interesting, for instance it puts forward the idea that Polly Nichol's husband cheated on her (and set up home with their neighbour) and so she had to leave the family home, and it was he who said the relationship broke down because of her drinking. The author says there isn't conclusive evidence that Polly was a prostitute, and that her husband reported her for taking up with another man because then he would not have to pay money to her as maintenance. She just formed another relationship after they had separated. It was too expensive for working class people to divorce. Men could separate if a women was seen as an adulterer, and would no longer have to pay to support her, but a woman could not claim adultery as a basis of divorce so there was a double standard. Women who were down and out were automatically assumed to be fallen women morally and women living on the streets were assumed to be prostitutes at any man's disposal, whether or not they were. The five women were all betrayed by people in their lives one way or another, they all strike me as interesting characters who did not fit in with the confines of their social situation as working class women, and were made vulnerable to a repulsive predator because of this, and some of the unfair assumptions persist about them today. When Polly Nichol's husband identified her body, he reportedly said "I forgive you on account of all you have been to me". Which I find encapsulates this idea about how these women were viewed, and which the book redresses.

Jack London dressed as a laborer and walked the streets of white chapel and found it extraordinary disturbing and wreaking with poverty.

@thehistorysquad

10 ай бұрын

Yes, it's on my bookshelf now, the People of the Abyss, what an eye opener to the poverty experienced back then 👍🏻

It was wonderful to have the victims presented as real people. I’ve never seen this done before. I really enjoyed your video. It brought the “victims” to life.

@thehistorysquad

9 ай бұрын

Lovely, thank you.

Thank you for sharing all of this information about these poor women and their lives. Seems that drinking and being poor is the common factor of all of their deaths. But it's the insanity of the mutilation on them that has always been concerning. Thank you again!

Brilliant video. And it really shows the kind of conditions that existed back then...terrifying and brutal times

Such a sensitive and compassionate view of these desperate women. I commend you, making them real people and explaining these murders to us.

Excellent! Thank you! And in a small way, we give these victims some honour. May God have mercy on their souls.

Thank you for the video. The attention to detail about the victims in a nonjudgmental and straightforward manner is very well done.

In my 49 yrs Ive heard Jacks victims being referred to two times in in my life. 1st time was in the last five years, and the second time needless to say was when I came across this video. RIP Ladies. So sorry your life's were cut short.

Seeing how those people lived saddens me, but mostly infuriates me. It didn't have to be that way. It's the same now, as the rich get richer and poor get poorer. Human nature will never change. You had old Queen Victoria sitting on her 'throne' with her 50" waistline, while half of the poor children died before age 5, from malnutrition and literally starvation. It disgusts me. Another great video from the champ!

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for that comment, it's so true and so sad. It's one of the reasons I wanted to cover it, especially the poverty angle. We could put the world to rights over a pint 👍🏻

@CanadianMonarchist

8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately wealth and poverty still coexist today. 😢

@00loudog

Ай бұрын

Yes they do and things are only getting worse

@natashajones3206

23 күн бұрын

And this at a time when Britain was the richest country in the world.

Wow! I heard more details about the murders than I had never heard before! So sad that alcohol was the common denominator.....still so prevalent today. Thank you for such an imteresting story

I have a family connection! My Great Great Maternal Grandfather was a police constable in White Chapel and he apparently investigated at least one of the White Chapel murders. I was given up for adoption as a baby, so my name isn't in the family tree, but I am related to Herbert Elliston biologically. Thank you for giving more info on these horrible murders!

Thank you for this insightful video . Also I like your sympathetic narrative, regarding these poor woman . You point out that they were real people, not just victims.

Excellent video as always. I love how you focused on the victims lives and the conditions they lived in.

Nice to see a video on the victims and their lives before their untimely death, had no idea how well off the first two victims were at a point in their life. Videos on this subject are always on the Ripper himself and/or how low the victims were in the social ladder, never looking into their past or seeing them more than victim. Thanks for seeing them as a person and more than a victims. Keep up the good work Kev 👍

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, will do 👍🏻

Hearing the history of London at this time leaves you to feel sad for the people who lived in such awful poverty. This kind of situation was a prime opportunity for Jack the Ripper to thrive and find innocent victims. Rip to all the ladies who passed and may they know that they aren't forgotten. So many people cramped into such a small area isn't safe and humane . No wonder crime was so rampant and the actual killer wasn't caught at the time. The people living in the white chapel area were treated as less than equal to others in London at the time.

Very well presented Kevin. You're the first I've seen to give the back story on the victims. Such a sad story. Take care. God bless, Rob

Another fantastic video (to be expected). It's so tragic how these people lived, the stresses they endured. Thank you for telling their stories!

I really appreciated this video in which you told us about the five women that Jack the Ripper horrifically murdered. I liked the way you explained about each of the women everything from where they were born until they were last seen alive, period! Great investigating, presentation and backstory, as well. Take care 🪴

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Brenda, I really appreciate that.

Thank you for this video! I learned about those poor victims. Well done!

Fantastic as always, esp. that you have the scope on the victims and the circumstances of their lives.

My grandmother grew up in London, Westminster etc. One of her sister's was murdered as a young girl. My mum said the police thought that she was murdered by Jack the Ripper but they then said she wasn't one of his victims. The thing is the last victim of Jack the Ripper was about 15 years before the death of my grandmother's sister.

My heart breaks for these women and people. Tears continue for each victim. At the very least they’re at peace now🙏 Thank you for your research and the making of this “movie”.

This is a very interesting subject. I love the way you focused on the victims.

I learned so much more about this story, and the names of the victims after hearing about this story since I was a kid. Thank you for all of this!

I just discovered this channel a couple days ago, an I love it. What a story teller. Very informative and entertaining.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Jason, welcome

I just discovered this channel and absolutely love it. I loved history since grade school because I had a teacher that loved history and had the ability to make it real, much like you do.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

That's great William, thanks and welcome to the channel 👍🏻

Magnificently done. 👏👏🎩. Jack the Ripper is one of my favorite Victorian stories and murder cases. The lithograph of each of the murder victims are like what I've seen in documentaries. But the one showing Mary Jane Kelly how she would have been attacked is when I've never seen before. But the song that she sang the night she was killed is something that haunts me and perhaps on any Whitechapel Street. 🎩

Fantastic work. I've only just discovered this channel. Thank you. Bless 👊

Fascinating, best commentary on details of the lives of the poor victims I’ve heard, leaving all the boring bits out.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. I thought I was reasonably educated in Ripperology but you shared things I didn’t know. Quite detailed and totally respectful of both the participants in this story and those of us who are watching. So refreshing! Consider me a fan 🙂.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Melissa, I appreciate that.

Cracking good stuff...thanks so much for this video! I've always love the lore and this helps. It's amazing that, 135 years ago, we still don't know exactly what happened and who was responsible.

Very good video!! I love the background information on the victims!! You got such a good wad of telling history in new or exsta ways. Even if I know a lot about the topic I alway learn more! So cool!

I’m thankful your channel appeared in my feed. You bring a wonderful historical perspective to interesting subjects.

@thehistorysquad

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Emma 👍🏻

Thank you for this. Serial killers have been romanticized, which is a disturbing comment in and of itself, and their victims largely ignored. They tend to prey upon vulnerable populations society doesn’t care about (prostitutes, runaways, various ethnic groups, addicts, gay men, etc) and avoid capture for many years. There’s often a lot of rage and hated directed at the victims by the murderers and its ubderlying in socuety itself. As part of my study of oppression, I looked at the history of the origins of policing the poor and other outsider groups across a number of Western nations. The original purpose was to protect the upper classes from the great unwashed. Ugly stuff, though I also found examples of caring officers who were deeply frustrated by the way things worked and sought reform.

@thehistorysquad

11 ай бұрын

Poverty during those times really makes my blood boil, the disparity and injustice of it all. My wife Julie's grandmother was born in one of those workhouses. She was eventually brought up in a convent (school we think) and became a nurse so was lucky to escape the poverty. Jack London's book People of the Abyss is a sobering read. 👍🏻

@sharonkaczorowski8690

11 ай бұрын

@@thehistorysquad I read that when was quite young. There's poverty in my heritage as well. My great grandmother lost her husband to TB which she also contracted. At that times she and her children lived on an East Texas farm. Everyone thinks it’s warm until they experience what’s called a blue norther, basically an ice storm.. She crawled from the farnhouse to a creek and broke ice to get water for herself and her children. They had very little food. Somehow they survived. I come from a lot of tough women.

This is my third video of yours in a row. You have such compassion but also the balance of a true historian. I have subscribed and will be visiting with you over the near future. I'm so glad you've come into my life. My retirement is just so much richer because of your videos. Thank you and my sincere best wishes to you and yours

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Hello and thank you so much for your kind words. Welcome to the channel, I hope you enjoy your retirement as much as I'm enjoying mine and making these videos. 👍🏻

Appreciate the video. I also appreciate the focus on the victim and actually seeing a video with a different perspective into the case

By far the best bit on the Ripper victims!!! Thank you for sharing your story!!!

Thank you for giving these victims names and background. I’ll admit, I’ve never really studied the Jack the Ripper murders. Sadly, the women are viewed as nameless street walkers, the dregs of society. Though I’ve never judged poor women forced into those circumstances, it’s easy for society to dismiss them. However, the animal that murdered them was given notoriety-something every serial killer and mass murderer craves. I wonder what modern day profilers have to say about this serial killer? I also wonder if the Police Commissioner was an appointed office, as so many these days are. So many questions. And the most important one you answered today: who were the victims? They deserve our prayers. (Not sure if it was intentional, but the red kerchief was quite effective.)

@rizmark5522

Жыл бұрын

He was a top mason. You can read Warrens attempt to find the Arch of the Covenant in Israel. He knew more about the Ripper than anyone else but kept it quiet.

These poor women. Doing what they could to survive.four pennies was a lot of money. Im surprised anyone survived victorian London 😢

Again, another great presentation. And from a different perspective. Thanks again Kevin.

Thank you for this indepth account. Such a tragic time.. .😞 Please keep these insightful stories coming. God bless.✨🙏

It's weird to think that all this happened in my Grandfather's time. OK, he was very young but, even so, a strange thought. It makes me realise, when we see how shocking conditions could be for ordinary people at the time, just how privileged he was.

it’s weird how family history can come up in odd ways in stories, hopefully she is proud that a distant relative fought against crime and evil and found a connection to her and kept her memory alive.

This was a really great review. This video focused more on the social conditions and victims.

Best presentation I have heard on this subject!!!

Quite a gruesome video Kev, but as usual you handled it in a very vivid yet sympathetic way for these poor women, well done Sir 🤘🏹

@babbybailey2534

Жыл бұрын

Kevin's great, he shows you all angles. From an arrow shot at a helmet to give you a medieval soldiers point of view to other great presentations. Can't get enough of the great historian. Thanks Kevin 🦉👍

Just watched this video I’m a new subscriber. Loved the information on each victim. What a pitiful life they must have had. I loved the way you presented the lives of each woman. Thanks for a very interesting time.

@thehistorysquad

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure, they deserve a voice. Welcome to the channel 👍

These videos are so informative. Thank you so much.

@thehistorysquad

10 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Absolutely enthralled with this...thankyou so much for such an imformative reflection of the poor victims.

A story that’s always fascinated me and your video, explaining the story of the victims is excellent, well written and very well explained - love watching your videos 😊 you make history come alive, greetings from Northern Ireland 👋👋

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ricky!

Hi Kevin. Can you believe a guy in Costa Rica would some day hear those stories as told by you? Exiting times mate. Your work has reached far and wide. I have seen many of your videos... Outstanding. Thanks for your effort and hard work.

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks Victor. Hi, how lovely to hear from you - glad you like the videos 👍🏻

Love the way you present our history. I lived in the UK for 30 yrs, born there. In Welwyn Garden City. Now in South West Australia. Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Margate were my stomping ground as an adult. Haynes in Bedfordshire as a small child, blissful. I loved Haynes very much. Loved Broadstairs in Kent too. Two opposites, the countryside and the seaside. Both beautiful in their own ways. History is a passion of mine as is Geology. Love the history of the UK, although not all pleasant that's for sure. Subscribed. Long may the victims rest in peace. Evil endures doesn't it, but it's choice for the most part. Choose the light. Give 4 pennies.

This is one of the most enligtening film, I have seen on this periode. Looking at the murders from a compationate view point is not often seen in cases like this, so thank you.

These incidents must have fueled generations of people to become bobby's, and law enforcement!Quite a respectful summary Kevin, you do the case honor and ensure it's worth!

What an excellent dive into the victims' lives and background. Like most retired old "Bobbies" I have always had a fascination with these murders. I've also policed all around the areas where "Jack" struck and there is still an air of discomfort and "unfinished business." Expertly told with accuracy and empathy. Top video, my blue brother. New subscriber.

Your research is incredibly indepth and your engaging telling of these sad tales is what makes this a very special film

@thehistorysquad

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. 👍🏻

Outstanding content as usual sir. Thank you for sharing.

I took a peek at the photo at Kelly's crime scene photo and instantly regretted it. Truly the stuff of nightmares. And no matter how much I love horror movies the real thing shall always be traumatic for me.

@geomidia8998

8 ай бұрын

Saw it too, still one of the most gruesome pics ever taken.

@thegreencat9947

4 ай бұрын

@@geomidia8998 I saw it also. So difficult to distinguish what I was looking at. Her face....horrific..and so sad.

Thank you. You’ve made your women/femme followers feel seen and valid. You made these women feel like a fond, distant acquaintance instead of a gruesome number. I didn’t know these women beyond brief names and numbers. I can picture them in my head beyond the way the monster left them. I didn’t know how badly they were mutilated and you approach it with matter-of-fact respect. Thank you for giving the much greater concept. You make their stories feel like I’m hearing about a murder streak a town over. They’re even more relatable. I feel like I can grieve for and respect these women better because I know the frank, brutal details instead of palatable descriptions AND their actual lives.

@thehistorysquad

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words, these women had lives, they mattered., I'm glad that came through 👍🏻

Amazing documentary ❤ Your storytelling skills are top notch, thank you!

Great video. Sad and thought provoking description of the lives of these women and the lives of the desperately poor. Awesome presentation too. Thanks.

The very cobble stones that the first victim Mary Ann Nichols was found laying dead on, that her blood ran over, that Jack The Ripper himself knelt down on to carry out his barbaric act, are still in place today on Durward Street, behind Whitechapel Tube station and on top of the bridge that spans over the tube stations tracks and platform. I've walked past that spot so many times, a few times in the early hours walking home from the pub, and I always get a chill knowing what happened right there on that very spot. Out of all the murder sites, it is the only one left intact where the actual site still exists as it was back in 1888, albeit the original terraced houses are no longer there.

@mucked11

Жыл бұрын

Is this the one between the Sainsbury's and Whitechapel gym.

@kariannstickle2708

8 ай бұрын

I must visit that spot. To me that feels like going to Danvers (Salem) Massachusetts. Pilgrimage to honor the women and add in LGBTQIA and other minorities cut down in hatred. I’m not a spiritual person but it feels like liminal space sacred ground.

@daniellewills6465

Ай бұрын

@@kariannstickle2708what does the IA mean ? Or stand for?

If you’re interested in learning more about the lives of the JtR victims and what led them to London, you should read ‘The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper’ by Hallie Rubenhold - it’s non fiction and gives incredibly detailed information on the women’s lives. Well researched and informative.

Really enjoyed this video 😊 thx for sharing 😊

thank you for this, I thoroughly enjoyed it. you're a very good storyteller

It breaks my heart the role drink has to play in all of this, on top of destitution from the class system! I can't help but think so many people were driven to drinking to cope with the incredible stress of life at that time, then essentially became addicted. Heartbreaking. Thank you for telling their story in such a respectful manner.

You did a great job. I always felt pity for the ladies for what happened, Poverty caused it. Very sad.

Really, really well presented , thoroughly enjoyed this 😊 thank you 😊

@thehistorysquad

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

This is one of the absolute best videos focusing on the victims. Excellent !

@thehistorysquad

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks very much.