Author: Richard Jones

In the early days of the Whitechapel Murders, it soon became apparent that the murderer – who was destined to become known as Jack the Ripper – was choosing his victims from amongst the poorest class of women […]

On Thursday 22nd of August, 1901, 21-year-old Charles Stuart, whose occupation was given as “cabinet maker,” appeared before Mr Loveland-Loveland, K.C. at the Clerkenwell Police Court, charged with pick-pocketing. According to The Lancashire Evening Post, in its edition of Friday […]

For us today it is almost impossible to picture what life was like for the everyday person who lived in the East End of London around the time of the Jack the Ripper atrocities. Fortunately, from an historical […]

On Tuesday the 2nd of October, 1888, the following article appeared in The Pall Mall Gazette. The article gave details of many of the suggestions that were circulating in the newspapers about ways in which the Whitechapel Murderer – […]

It is evident, from reading newspaper accounts of the early Jack the Ripper murders, that there was a general consensus amongst the police, press and public at large, that the crimes were actually being carried out by members […]

There can be no doubt about it, life in the Victorian East End was tough. If you suddenly found yourself joining the ranks of the unfortunate poor, who had fallen upon hard times, there was no safety net […]

Throughout October, 1888, the Victorian newspapers were awash with stories on what the police should be doing to catch Jack the Ripper. There was a general consensus that the police investigation had shown itself to be woefully inadequate […]

As the Jack the Ripper murders raged in London, more and more newspapers and magazines came to see the Whitechapel horrors as an inevitable consequence of the bloodthirsty literature and drama that people were enjoying in their daily […]

It can be difficult for us today to comprehend the impact that the Whitechapel murders had on Victorian society. Separated as we are by the passage of more almost 130 years, we tend to view the crimes as […]

My goodness me, where did the year go? It doesn’t seem like two minutes ago that it was January and we were in the process of launching our first Jack the Ripper quiz of 2017! Now, the end […]