Types of Sources

National

Reliable/Challenge

Ideas of Source

Board of Works

London wide Gov - infrastructure for growing city - want action is needed

Punch Magazine

Satirical magazine - popular among middle & upper class (sophisticated humour)

Graphic Newspaper

Images chosen to grab audience

Daily News

reformist writers who were interested in social issues

Instruction Book for Candidates and Constables

Clear expectations for new recruits - to ensure public confidence

Census Records

Snapshot of where people live - overcrowding, employment, wealth, amount of children

Novels

mainly to entertain - reader are unlike to live in slums

News articles

report on events - exaggerated?

Illustrated Police

earliest tabloids - sensationalised and melodramatic (for working class) - popular opinion

Local

Reliable/Challenge

Ideas of Source

Charles Booth map of Whitechapel

Poverty and living conditions over Whitechapel

Thames Police Court

Nature/proceedings of cases - less serious cases

East London Observer

Covered Ripper murders in detail - local view/knowledge

Memoir - East End Detective

local knowledge but exaggerate so look like job is harder than actually is

Letter to Home Office from Superintendent of Whitechapel Division

Senior police officer - persuading/justifying?

Old Bailey Proceedings

Central criminal court - most serious cases - document case (all types of crimes)