Month: November 2015

On 3 May 1879 the East London Observer treated its readers to the “Latest Intelligence” under the headline “An Extraordinary Ball -Men Dressed As Women.” It as an interesting article because it provides us with an insight into […]

Fog in London. It is what everybody immediately imagines when they picture the streets of the Metropolis in Jack the Ripper’s day. Dense, smoke-filled air, swirling its way through the narrow, cobbled thoroughfares of the East End of […]

On Sunday February 18th 1894, Reynolds Newspaper featured a headline that posed the question “Jack The Ripper – Is He In Dartmoor Prison Asylum?” Th article purported to be based around a similar article that had appeared in […]

Catherine Eddowes, murdered on 30th September 1888, was the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper. ProProfs Quiz- The Catherine Eddowes Murder Quiz Her murder is of interest for several reasons, not least of which is the fact that […]

One of the aspects that is noticeable from the press reporting on the Whitechapel murders is the fact that, to certain young men, the murders were being seen as a source of fun and they considered it a […]

On Friday 6th March 1885, the Pall Mall Gazette brought its readers the dreadful news that an attempt had been made to blow up a police station in the East End of London. Now, of course, 1885 was three […]