Author: Richard Jones

Being a police officer in London has always entailed a certain amount of danger, and, for the Victorian Metropolitan Police Constables, the hazards they faced meant that they could find themselves exposed to danger at any moment as […]

Following the “night of the double murder” – the 30th of September, 1888 – criticism of the evident inability of the Metropolitan Police to catch Jack the Ripper increased dramatically. Several newspapers placed the blame for the police […]

Whitechapel, throughout the latter half of the 19th century, had a dreadful reputation for villainy; and it wasn’t just the crimes of Jack the Ripper that imbued it with such a reputation for lawlessness that the very mention […]

On the 26th of May, 1901, the murder of Annie Austin took place in a common lodging house in Dorset Street, the same street in which the murder of Mary Kelly had taken place, on the 9th November, […]

The crime of “garroting”, whereby a gang of ruffians would seize a victim by the throat and then rob them of as many of their possessions as they could easily escape with, was just one of the many […]

The summer of 1888 saw some alarming weather conditions, not just in London but across the whole of the country. Heavy rain and gale force winds swept across England, causing widespread flooding, as well as terrible damage to […]

The following article appeared in The Daily Gazette on Friday, 21st October, 1881 HOW THE POOR LIVE BY ONE OF THE CROWD “While a friendly old pieman and I stood partaking of harmless refreshment at the crowded bar of the […]

Many of the people of Victorian Whitechapel lived a hand-to-mouth existence, whereby they would buy small quantities of food and provisions, as and when they had the means to do so. To cater to their needs, the shops […]

In June, 1893, a London prostitute who was known as Jenny Hinks, but whose real name was Jane Thompson, was found dead on a street in Rotherhithe, South London. The fact that her throat had been cut so […]

Welcome to the Whitechapel murders quiz for August 2018. How well do you know the Jack the Ripper case? Well, our quiz is the perfect way to test your knowledge, as it consists of 10 question concerning history’s […]