This essay will look at how the press coverage of the 'Jack the Ripper' murders strengthened the idea of the East End as a dangerous place and therefore raised the sense of a division existing between those in the East End of London and those who lived in the West End. It will be examined how the rise of the press in the nineteenth-century enabled those who were at the helm of society to be …
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