Mike Covell’s Blogg

I am a self confessed contempory newspaper addict, when I am not writing and researching, I am often pouring over old newspaper reports.  Over the years I have amassed collections on the 1st and 2nd World War, Titanic, The Paranormal, and many other topics. 

Two years ago I began searching the four Hull Newspapers that were printing in 1888 and that are still available today, my aim was to collect them for my own little archives.  After a while I became obssessed with transcribing them and eventually decided to present them as a book.  To date I have transcribed hundreds of reports on the case, and other reports pre-dating and following the events during the “Autumn of Terror”

After hearing about my work, I was informed about the book “The News From Whitechapel-Jack the Ripper and the Daily Telegraph” by Alexander Chisholm, Cristopher-Michael DiGrazia, and Dave Yost.

The book is a well written, well presented piece of work on the Whitechapel Murders, and takes in the 5 commonly accepted victims, their murders, antecedents, Inquests, burials, and all the news worthy events that transpired during the case.

Each report is accompanied by a well written narrative, and features footnotes, and references.  Each chapter is also closed with a commentary.

The book points out all the errors, and sensationalism that was rife during the series of murders, and is an outstanding book.  I began reading it and could not put it down, and even when I finished, I would return to certain dates, to re-read what I had read earlier.

Although the book is available online, asking prices tend to fall around the £25 price, but believe me, it is £25 worth spending.