Ian Porter

Ian Porter is a historian, lecturer, public speaker and walks guide. He is particularly interested in women's history and social history, in particular the 19th and early 20th centuries. Whitechapel Autumn of Error is his fourth novel. It's a feminist social history novel set in the East End of London during the Jack the Ripper murders. His grandmothers were teenagers living in East London at the time and his novel is dedicated to them. He was inspired to write such a novel out of frustration at the way the story of the poor women of the slums at the time are ignored by history. His previous novels include the highly acclaimed Suffragette Autumn Women's Spring and A Plague On Both Your Houses (set on the home fronts of London & Berlin during the final few months of the Great War as the Spanish Flu pandemic hits).

Aside from history, Ian's other great love is sport (he has a degree in Sport & History) and he lives near Newbury, so it's not so surprising that his next two novels are to be set during the 1908 London Olympics and the Greenham Common women's protests of the 1980's.