Author: Richard Jones

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 […]

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 […]

From quite earl;y on in the Jack the Ripper investigation, there were suggestions in the press that female detectives should be employed and put on the trail of the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders. However, journalists had been […]

One thing that tends to get overlooked in written accounts of the Jack the Ripper murders, is the effect that the crimes had on those whose names were suddenly thrust into the media spotlight by the sudden notoriety […]

As the end of September, 1888, approached, the fact that the police had not caught the murderer who, within a few short weeks would become known as “Jack the Ripper”, led to a great deal of speculation in […]

One of the things that all the victims of Jack the Ripper shared in common was the fact that, in almost all their cases – Mary Kelly being the exception – they lodged in the common lodging houses […]