Jack the Ripper and the White Chapel Murders

The White Chapel murders in London's East End are a terrible story, and cruel violence against vulnerable women is at its heart. But it's not the only story that women in the East End of London were part of in 1888. There were world-shaking events in the Eastend that year; we return to the match factory on Bow Road because that's where poor and working women decided they had suffered enough. We saw the way they fumed against the underhanded dealing of Theodore Bryant when he called their wages to pay for his statue of Gladstone. Here's Dr Louise Ra to tell us more.