Eddowes Shawl, not Simpson Shawl, or Ripper Shawl
There's too much goal post moving. The only history this shawl have is family lore. That lore puts the shawl in Mitre Square and has it belonging to Eddowes. Because this is inconvenient for the Kozminski theorists, they are first moving possession of the shawl from Eddowes to Kozminski. And I understand there is now forming a movement to take the shawl from the factually problematic Mitre Square and to put it somewhere else where it would be easier to place Simpson on the scene. Is this correct? If such a movement isn't underway, it will be. It has to be.
But if they want to fight fair, they have to keep their tender shred of folk lore intact. The shawl must remain Eddowes' and it must have been found by Simpson in Mitre Square.
I'm a bit annoyed that for 20 years it's been called the 'Eddowes Shawl' and is now being referred to - even by non-believers - as the 'Simpson Shawl' or 'Ripper shawl'. Why? Because a new writer no one had heard of before decided to rechristen it? Sorry, it's still the Eddowes shawl to me, although a more appropriate name would be That 80s Shawl, since that's when it first entered the historical record.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott
There's too much goal post moving. The only history this shawl have is family lore. That lore puts the shawl in Mitre Square and has it belonging to Eddowes. Because this is inconvenient for the Kozminski theorists, they are first moving possession of the shawl from Eddowes to Kozminski. And I understand there is now forming a movement to take the shawl from the factually problematic Mitre Square and to put it somewhere else where it would be easier to place Simpson on the scene. Is this correct? If such a movement isn't underway, it will be. It has to be.
But if they want to fight fair, they have to keep their tender shred of folk lore intact. The shawl must remain Eddowes' and it must have been found by Simpson in Mitre Square.
I'm a bit annoyed that for 20 years it's been called the 'Eddowes Shawl' and is now being referred to - even by non-believers - as the 'Simpson Shawl' or 'Ripper shawl'. Why? Because a new writer no one had heard of before decided to rechristen it? Sorry, it's still the Eddowes shawl to me, although a more appropriate name would be That 80s Shawl, since that's when it first entered the historical record.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott
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