Comments on: Strange & Terrible News From Spittle-Fields

By: Simon Le Marechal

Simon Le Marechal — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:53:53 +0000

Thank you for explaining what Rasbane is

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:55:23 +0000

The most heartening thing about reading first hand accounts of these tragedies is that things ain’t so bad now!!!

Despite the media recent studies demonstrate that the human species is more civilized and compassionate now than in times of yore.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:11:37 +0000

Interesting reading.

By: Nerea

Nerea — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:05:16 +0000

What an interesting article, thanks so much for sharing it, tragic food poisoning! Perhaps some envious competitors who wanted to ruin the business. We shall never know!

By: Lorena

Lorena — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:48:59 +0000

I, being a reasonably critical-thinking person and a lifelong and avid lover of history, am reminded once again of just how different the world was from the world we inhabit. The idea that news would be so full of claims that this was involved in some sort of Devil`s doing and, even, perhaps, a fight between God and the Devil, is so foreign an idea. Humans have always had this obsession with finding reasons for things unreasonable. An early case of a recounting of the effects of a serial murderer, surely, and almost AS surely done by a member of the family or someone closely known to them.

By: Julie Elders

Julie Elders — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:16:52 +0000

how interesting … love all the posts on spitalfields life

By: andrea

andrea — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:16:45 +0000

Interesting that it begins with an abstract, almost as if the writer knows the piece is a bit too long and florid.

By: librarygirl

librarygirl — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:40:39 +0000

Amazing stuff – thank you for posting this.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:29:46 +0000

It is very interesting to see how the English language has evolved over the centuries.
Gary

By: Annette

Annette — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:39:07 +0000

Great to see Bishopsgate Institute collaborating to make such fantastic things available online. Sadly, in my neck of the woods, it’s difficult to get permission to reproduce archive material on my blog or elsewhere because of Draconian attitudes towards copyright, but it does the heart good for this Midlander to be able to sample some of the excellent material at the Bishopsgate Institute while sitting at her desk in Coventry. Thanks, as ever, for another superb post.