The Illustrated Police News (IPN) was inaugurated on 20 February 1864; it would remain in publication, as a weekly Saturday newspaper for no less than seventy-four years. Initially, it had four pages, the first of which was devoted to illustrations of recent crimes.... [Its] remarkable and dramatic illustrations have become part of the cult of Victoriana. Expertly executed by skilful draughtsmen, they make the most of the sanguinary and macabre subject matter.... Women coming to grief in various ways were a favourite subject for the male-dominated readership. — Jan Bondeson, Introduction.
Jack the Ripper
- Two More Whitechapel Horrors
- The Seventh Horrible Murder
- Man seen haunting the house of Mr Lusk
- Portrait sketches of the supposed Whitechapel monster
- A Suspect
- Front Cover, 22 September 1888
- The Fifth Victim of the Whitechapel Fiend
- Finding the Body in the Bank Yard
- Opening the Door to Admit Death!
- Justice is blind
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Bibliography
Bondeson, Jan. Victorian Murders. Stroud, Glos.: Ambereley Publishing, 2019.
Created 30 May 2025