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- James Maybrick - was he Jack The Ripper?
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- The Maybrick story has everything: sex, adultery, prostitution, drugs, an American beauty, a dramatic murder trial, interventions by Queen Victoria and three US Presidents, and of course, Jack the Ripper (allegedly). The backdrop to the story is great political, economic and social changes of Victorian England. A time when Britain became the economic powerhouse of Europe and the British Empire straddled the globe. It was in this period that a rapidly expanding Liverpool became the greatest port in the world. The cotton trade was at the heart of Liverpool’s growth and James Maybrick, as a Liverpool cotton merchant, was both a witness of, and a participant in, the phenomenal development of the city and its port. The story of Liverpool and the story of the Maybricks go hand-in-hand. The aim of this website is to tell the two interlocking stories of Liverpool and the Maybricks in a balanced and impartial manner. There are still many details in both stories to be unearthed. However, as ...
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- james maybrick, florence maybrick, jack the ripper, liverpool cricket club, murder, prostitute, battlecrease