For centuries scholars have busied themselves with the ‘victors’ of history, who were usually men. Now a new generation is broadening the picture to include the lives most of us lead

The dead bodies of murdered women are served up as butcher’s meat in this survey of work by the Victorian painter who almost certainly claimed to the police to be Jack the Ripper

They have a Jack the Clipper barber and a Jack the Chipper fish shop. But a mural of the murderer leering proved too much for some horrified residents of London’s East End – so they took action

This devastatingly scrupulous account of Jack the Ripper’s victims exposes the misogyny at the heart of the myth