Month: December 2017

Many police officers were involved in the hunt for Jack the Ripper, and many of them, for us today, are little more than names on a page, about whom we know virtually nothing, other than for their involvement […]

What could possibly have induced somebody to carry out a series of such gruesomely brutal and apparently motiveless murders as the Whitechapel atrocities? This was the question that was being posed in the newspapers in mid-September 1888. By […]

Over the Christmas period, 1888, what, at face value, appeared to be a very sad and moving story, gripped Londoners and, in the wake of the fates of the victims of Jack the Ripper, that had been reported […]

Over the Christmas period, 1888, the people of the East End were coming to terms with the fact that another murder had recently taken place in their midst, with the finding of the body of Rose Mylett in […]

The social conditions in the slums of the East End of London were being commented on for many years before the series of crimes, that we now know as the Jack the Ripper murders, brought them to wider […]

There can be little doubt that there were certain parts of the Victorian East End that were, to say the least, thoroughly unpleasant to live in or near. Indeed, long before the advent of the dreadful Jack the […]

In 1910, Sir Robert Anderson, who at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders was the head of the Detective Department of the Metropolitan Police, published his memoirs which were titled The Lighter Side Of My Official […]

Looking through the hundreds, if not thousands, of  photographs of the people of the Victorian East End, that have managed to survive the march of time, you are often struck by the seeming willingness of the residents to […]

Can you believe it, 2018 is just around the corner? Another year has zoomed by, and it’s time for our final Jack the Ripper Quiz of 2017. If you are a seasoned quizzer, then you can just go ahead […]

On Saturday the 17th of November, 1888, The Weekly Telegraph published the fourth, and final, instalment of a series of articles that had taken readers on an armchair tour of the slums of East London, and which had visited […]