Author: Richard Jones

Welcome to another Jack the Ripper Quiz. As per our usual quizzes, the September 2022 challenge consists of 10 questions pertaining to the Jack the Ripper crimes in particular or the Whitechapel murders in general. There are questions […]

As regular readers of my blogs will be aware, I am fascinated by accounts that appear in Victorian newspapers that provided with insights into the everyday lives of the ordinary people of the era. On a recent trawl […]

On Saturday August the 6th, 1927, a calamity struck one of the buildings on Cornhill in the City of London. The Western Daily Press, in its edition of Monday the 8th of August, 1927. provided the following account […]

I came across the following strange tale as I was perusing the Victorian newspaper archives. It appeared in The South Wales Echo on Thursday the 3rd of February, 1887:- AN EAST END MYSTERY Yesterday afternoon, at the Shoreditch […]

On Friday August the 31st, 1888, the body of a woman, showing signs of terrible mutilations, was discovered in a dark gateway in Buck’s Row, in Whitechapel. That evening, several newspapers, provided their readers with as much detail […]

Following the murder of Mary Nichols, which took place on the morning of Friday, August the 31st, 1888, taking a critical look at several newspapers began taking critical looks at the police efforts to identify the victim and […]

Of all the murders that one reads about in the Victorian newspapers, none are so effecting as those of children, particularly when the perpetrator turned out to be one of the parents of the victim. Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, […]

Doctors are, on the whole, trusted members of society, and members of the profession, on the whole, have always had the well-being of people as their main priority. But, every so often, medical men have been known to […]

Mysterious deaths were a regular occurrence in London in the Victorian era, and, no doubt, in almost every other era as well, right up to the modern day. What is intriguing is that we often known nothing about […]

I’m always up for a ghost story, and have covered several strange happenings that I uncovered in Victorian newspapers in these very pages. Tales such as the Plaistow Ghost, and the Wolstanton Ghost have been covered in these […]