Author: Richard Jones

Following the murder of Annie Chapman, which took place in the backyard of number 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields, on the 8th of September, 1888, police activity was stepped up in the neighbourhood with a view to bringing the […]

It seems that, throughout November, 1888, the Jack the Ripper letter writers were extremely busy composing missives that were then sent to those in the public eye, and which, so they claimed, had been written by the perpetrator […]

In May, 1892, The Pall Mall Gazette published two articles, written by a lady reporter, who had spent the night in the Salvation Army Shelter on Hanbury Street in Spitalfields. The concluding instalment appeared on Tuesday May 3rd, 1892:- […]

The second Jack the Ripper murder, that of Annie Chapman, took place in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields, on the 8th of September, 1888. There was a great deal of sympathy in the press over the plight of poor Annie, […]

On Monday the 14th of March, 1892, The Pall Mall Gazette published an article by a female journalist who had recently spent the night in a casual ward in order to enlighten readers as to the plight of […]

On Monday the 12th of November, the people of London were coming to terms with the fact that yet another murder in the Whitechapel series had been carried out by the killer who was now becoming, almost universally, […]

On the morning of the 10th of November, 1888, the people of England were rapidly becoming aware that, on the previous day, another murder had taken place in the East End of London. This time the crime had […]

It’s time for our penultimate Jack the Ripper quiz of 2017. Another year has simply flown by – where does all the time go? But, at least that means there is time for two more of our fiendishly […]

In the wake of the murder of Mary Kelly, which took place on the 9th of November, 1888, all manner of rumours were circulating in the newspapers about this latest victims final hours. The police were, evidently, no […]

In the wake of the murder of Mary Kelly, which took place on the 9th of November, 1888, a journalist took a night time stroll through the streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields to gauge the mood in the […]