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**jmenges** · 08-22-2017, 06:44 PM

Conference Presentations

Whitechapel Society Conference (Salisbury 2014)

Sarah Wise: Gaslight Stories- Tales from the Victorian Lunatic Asylum
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=114
Robert Anderson: Opening Pandora�s Box: Syphilis in Whitechapel in 1888
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=106

Casebook: Classic Crime Symposium (2015)

Adam Wood: Donald Swanson and the Seaside Home
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=121
Neil Bell: Bluebottles and Tecs- Life as a Policeman in H Division
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=120
Trevor Bond: A Terrible Tale of 1888
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=119
Jon Lee Rees: In a Nutshell- A Close Look at the Life's Work of Frances Glessner Lee
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=118

Rippercon in Baltimore (2016)

Mikita Brottman: The Life & Times of the Yorkshire Ripper
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=126
Michael Hawley: Dr. Francis Tumblety- Amongst the Best Suspects
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=127
Jack the Ripper Suspects Panel: Martin Fido, Michael Hawley & Robert Anderson
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=128
Robert Anderson: An Incident at Oak Beach: Ripperologists look at LISK
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=129
Christopher T. George & Janis Wilson: The Ripper, Sherlock Holmes & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=131
Charles Tumosa: The Forensic Time Machine- Looking Backwards
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=132

Ripperologist Magazine 21st Birthday Conference (2016)

David Thompson on PC Ernest Thompson
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=136
Glenn Chandler on the Sins of Jack Saul: The True Story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street Scandal
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=137
Ben Johnson on Charles Peace: Murder, Mayhem and the Master of Disguise
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=138
David Wickes on Classic Jack the Ripper Television (interviewed by Richard Jones)
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=140
Chris Payne on Chief Inspector George Clarke and the Trial of the Detectives
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=141
Maxim Jakubowski on the Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=142
Drew Gray on Policing Whitechapel: The Role of the Thames Police Court in the 1880s
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=143
Professor Clive Emsley on the Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=144

18882016 (2016)

Joanne Vigor Mungovin on Joseph Merrick
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=147
Neil Bell: Stories From H Division
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=148
John Malcolm: Sir Robert's Revelation A Definitely Ascertained Fact or Another Dead End?
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=149
Neil Bell & Adam Wood: A History of the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=150

Jack The Ripper Conference in Nottingham (2015)

Katherine Amin presents Jack is a Feminist Issue: The Double Standard Through Time
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=151

Poison & Poisoners (2017)

Stephen Bates The Prince of Poisoners: William Palmer and the Trial of the Century
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=156
Linda Stratmann- The Scientific Poisoner
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=157

East End Conference (2017)

Tom Wescott: Reading Between the Lines
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=174
Richard Jones: The Everyday Humble Hero in the Age of Jack the Ripper
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=175
Charlotte Mallinson: In the Name of Jack: Rethinking Victimhood in Representations of the Whitechapel Murders
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=176
Karl Coppack: Ten Weeks In Whitechapel A New Way of Telling the Story
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=177
Mark Ripper: The Trial of Israel Lipski
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=178

Rippercon in Baltimore (2018)

Bernard Bealue: Tumblety- Historical and Criminal Evidence Issues
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=193
Chris Jones: The Maybricks of Liverpool
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=194

Whitechapel Society 1888 Victims Conference (2018)

Dr. Louise Raw: Striking a Light- East End Women
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=203
Joyce Hampton: The Huguenots: From Victims to Saviours
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=204
Hallie Rubenhold: The Lives of the Canonical Five
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=218

East End Conference (2018)

Drew Gray: Fake News From Whitechapel
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=214
Adam Wood: Swanson and the Four Rippers
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=213
Philip Hutchinson: Whitechapel Wanderlust
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=212
Tracy I'Anson: Jacob the Ripper
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=211
Emelyne Godfrey: Against the Shadows- Victorian Crime Waves & the Craze of Self-Defence
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=210
Louis Berk: Echoes of the East End Jewish Community
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=209

East End Conference (2019)

Richard Jones: Michael Ostrog- The Fashionable Rogue
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=251
M.J. Trow: Interpreting the Ripper Letters
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=250
Sarah Beth Hopton: Love's Executioner- Mary Pearcey & Morbid Jealousy
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=249
Mark Ripper: Unreliable Policemen's Memoirs
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=248
Dr. Drew Gray: Adventures in Ripperology
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=247
Trevor Bond: Attila the Sailor Man- The Ratcliff Highway Murders
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=246
Jon Horlor: Will the Real Carmarthen, Caernarvon, Cwmavon
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=245
Dr. Louise Raw: The East End Fights Back!
http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=244

**jmenges** · 08-22-2017, 06:45 PM

**jmenges** · 08-22-2017, 06:49 PM

**jmenges** · 08-22-2017, 06:51 PM

**jmenges** · 12-21-2019, 12:56 AM

Updated- December 2019

**MrBarnett** · 12-21-2019, 09:42 AM

That’s a pretty impressive back catalogue, Jon.

**jmenges** · 12-21-2019, 11:28 AM

Hi Gary,
I’m glad to see you as I was thinking just the other day how it feels like it’s been a while since I’ve seen you posting. I hope you’re having a good holiday season.
Next years big project is recording brand new roundtable discussions on all of the victims as it’s been over a decade since those were recorded. They really show their age. So new information, voices and perspectives is desperately needed. I welcome any suggestions.

JM

**Herlock Sholmes** · 12-21-2019, 12:05 PM

Echoing Gary’s post, that’s an extensive list Jon. Thanks for putting it together. I look forward to the round table on the victims. Will you be inviting HR?

**Ozzy** · 12-21-2019, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post

Echoing Gary’s post, that’s an extensive list Jon. Thanks for putting it together. I look forward to the round table on the victims. Will you be inviting HR?

Have you been listening to the Holmes podcasts Sholmes?

**jmenges** · 12-21-2019, 01:27 PM

Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post

Will you be inviting HR?

Has she discovered anything that wasn’t known about and discussed 12 years ago?

JM

**Herlock Sholmes** · 12-21-2019, 04:08 PM

Originally posted by Ozzy View Post

Have you been listening to the Holmes podcasts Sholmes?

I haven’t yet Ozzy. I intend to catch up over Christmas.

**MrBarnett** · 12-21-2019, 07:49 PM

Originally posted by jmenges View Post

Hi Gary,
I’m glad to see you as I was thinking just the other day how it feels like it’s been a while since I’ve seen you posting. I hope you’re having a good holiday season.
Next years big project is recording brand new roundtable discussions on all of the victims as it’s been over a decade since those were recorded. They really show their age. So new information, voices and perspectives is desperately needed. I welcome any suggestions.

JM

Hi Jon,

Yes, I’ve been a bit preoccupied with other stuff recently (real life), but I’ve also been doing a bit of long overdue housekeeping on some of my Ripperish files. I say ‘ish’ because some of the subjects are barely even tangential to the case.

I started a thread on ‘Biddy the Chiver’ the other day over at How’s to record some of the new info I’ve recently acquired and to give the old girl a home of her own. There’s a bit more research to do on her which may come up with something interesting, but unless you are prepared to consider a 14-year-old ‘Jill the Ripper’, I don’t think Biddy’s really a suitable subject for your discussions. If she was a victim, it was of her violent old man, Tommy O’Rourke.

I’ve still got work to do on Alice Mackenzie, Thomas Fogarty, Polly’s ‘Mr Cowdry’ and other subjects that might be of interest, though.

Here’s wishing you and all on Casebook a happy festive season.

Gary

**jmenges** · 08-13-2022, 11:33 AM

Updated the Whitechapel Society list.

**MrBarnett** · 08-13-2022, 04:13 PM

I’d welcome a round table discussion about Alice McKenzie - just to listen to, though, not to participate in. ;-)

The late Chris Scott had a thing about Alice. In the introduction to his ‘Will the Real Mary Kelly…?’ he commented:

‘It must be said that Mary Kelly is not the only possible victim who poses a problem with regard to documentary evidence. In July 1889, Alice McKenzie was found murdered in Castle Alley. She also has proved remarkably elusive when it comes to any provable references in the available records. Contemporary accounts of the case tell us only two things which may have led to some revelation of her background or previous history - that she was allegedly from Peterborough and was also known by the name of Bryant. Both items have thus far led nowhere.’

Then in 2008 he created a thread on Casebook entitled ‘McKenzie’s aliases’ in which he bemoaned the fact that:

‘Alice McKenzie has proved as impervious to research as Mary Kelly. The list of names used by her makes any progress difficult. These include:

Mackenzie
McKenzie
M'Kenzie
Bryant
Murrell
Kelly
Riley…’

I’m sure Chris would have been first in the queue to volunteer to join the panel on a ‘McKenzie’ discussion.

Today we know quite a bit about Alice’s origins, thanks in large part to the efforts of the Peterborough press who picked up on John McCormack’s claim that she was a native of their city and, despite persistent denials from her family there (the Pitts), established her origins in the enclosed world of the Minster Precincts. In contrast, the London press, the police and coroner Baxter were satisfied with the portrayal of her as a Spitalfields doss-house unfortunate with a taste for alcohol and tobacco who through her own lifestyle choices had put herself in harm’s way.

I find the change in tone in the Peterborough papers in the weeks following the first reports of the Castle Alley tragedy quite interesting. Initially, it seems, they followed the London lead and assumed that Alice might have been an inhabitant of Peterborough’s notorious ‘Boongate’ district. They then followed a couple of red herrings, one involving an altogether different Alice McKenzie, and a second involving a McKenzie family who had briefly resided in Peterborough. Eventually, though, they got to the truth (at least partially) and although all three of the city’s papers printed denials of any connection to Alice McKenzie by the Pitts family, they still went ahead and provided an outline of Alice Pitts’ life.

So thanks are due to the Peterborough press for their persistence, and Ripperologists also deserve a Pat on the back for filling in some of the subsequent gaps. I say ‘some’ because I think there is still quite a bit to be discovered.

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