Month: December 2017

On Saturday the 10th of November, 1888, The Weekly Telegraph published the third instalment of a series of articles for which a journalist had been taken on a tour of Jack the Ripper’s London by night, in the company […]

By November, 1888, a whole month had passed with no further Jack the Ripper murders having taken place, and the newspapers were starting to focus on different agendas, rather than just reporting the gruesome details of the latest […]

The Jack the Ripper murders resulted in a great deal of press interest in the actual area where the crimes were occurring. As the atrocities increased in number and ferocity more and more journalists began heading out to […]

By early December, 1888, all sorts of rumours were doing the rounds as to who the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders might have been, and what his possible motives for his atrocious crimes were. On the 4th of […]

Looking at photographs of the London streets around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, one thing that stands out – and stands out to such an extent that we often fail to notice it – is […]