Month: October 2015

One of the interesting things that is apparent from the newspapers in the first few weeks of 1888 is the fact that the murders were generating fear far outside the district in which they were occurring. JACK THE […]

By the early 1890’s Arthur Conan Doyle had grown tired of Sherlock Holmes and decided, therefore, to end the life of his detective creation once and for all. He, therefore sent him plunging into a watery grave in […]

One of the most fascinating things about studying the Jack the Ripper case is the opportunity it affords to gain a sneak peak into the everyday lives of some of the honest, and not so honest, folk of […]

Annie Chapman, whose murder took place in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, on 8th September 188, is thought to have been the second of Jack the Ripper’s victims. It was with her death that the general unease […]

As has been mentioned in many of our recent blogs on the Jack the Ripper murders, the newspapers were falling over themselves as they attempted to bring as many of the facts about the killing spree to their […]

On Tuesday 2nd October 1888 the newspapers were bursting with the latest information on the two new murders that had occurred in the early hours of the 30th September. The press criticism of the Metropolitan Police showed no […]