Given that Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror lasted a relatively short period of time (31st August 1888 to 9th November 1888, if you believe in the concept of the canonical five victims); the repercussions from his murders […]
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A recurring feature concerning East End life and criminality in the 19th century that featured over and over again in the Victorian newspapers, was just what a difficult, not to say dangerous, area it was to police. There […]
Read ArticleBy 1892, it was almost certain that something had happened to the person who had carried out the series of crimes that have passed down to posterity as the “Jack the Ripper murders.” What that something was, nobody […]
Read ArticleIf there was one thing that the Jack the Ripper murders exposed, it was some of the shortcomings of the Metropolitan Police detective department that faced the onerous task of trying to hunt the perpetrator of the atrocities […]
Read ArticleIt is often said – and, to an extent – it is true that the Jack the Ripper murders helped attract wider public attention to the horrific social conditions in the districts of Whitechapel and Spitalfields. Indeed, the […]
Read ArticleMy goodness me – the year is half over. Still, the upside is that we have another seven Jack the Ripper quizzes to bring you, so that is one upside of the speed with which time passes! Anyway, […]
Read ArticleMrs Frances Power Cobbe (1822 – 1904) was a campaigning Victorian Irish writer who dedicated herself to many causes. She was, for example, an ardent social reformer who helped found homes for Workhouse girls. In 1875 she founded […]
Read ArticleThe journalist George Sims (1847 – 1922) regularly reported on and commented on the Jack the Ripper murders and the police investigation into them. He also continued to comment and look into the crimes long after they had […]
Read ArticleThere can be no doubt that London in the 1880’s was in the grip of an, all too familiar, gang problem. The so-called “fighting gangs of London” were, very much, a blight on Victorian society – so much […]
Read ArticleWhen studying newspaper accounts of the Jack the Ripper crimes – and, for that matter, of other crimes that took place in London during the 1880’s – one often comes across references to police procedure and how an […]
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