Context of Whitechapel

• Whitechapel is an area in London's East End.
• Between 1870 and 1900 Whitechapel was an area of extreme poverty and a place where lots of different types of people lived.
• Some parts of Whitechapel were known as rookeries.
• Rookeries were areas filled with lodging houses in which some of the poorest people lived in terribly overcrowded conditions.