Baillie Gifford prize won by Jack the Ripper study ‘reclaiming victims' voices’

Hallie Rubenhold lands £50,000 award for The Five, a history that challenges assumption that the women were all sex workers

• Interview with Hallie Rubenhold: ‘Jack the Ripper’s victims have just become corpses. Can’t we do better?’

Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for The Five, a book about the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper described by the judges as “a great moral act”.

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