Author: Richard Jones

During September 1888, most of the English newspapers were starting to increase their coverage of the Whitechapel murders. The murder of Mary Nichols had occurred on August the 31st, 1888, and a week later, Annie Chapman was murdered […]

For us today, trying to get a impression of the sheer horror of the Jack the Ripper crimes, and to understand how those crimes impacted on those who had to deal with their aftermath, can be both a […]

Hello everybody. Well, April is upon us and so too is our latest Jack the Ripper Quiz Are you read to test you knowledge of the history of the people, places and dates associated with the Whitechapel murders? […]

November 1888 saw the first anniversary of the protests in Trafalgar Square that had culminated in “Bloody Sunday” on the 13th of November 1887. However, the issues that lay behind Bloody Sunday were still being discussed a year […]

Towards the end of October, 1888, with the whole of London alert to the possibility that Jack the Ripper might strike again at any moment, a woman by the name of Frances Annie Hancock went missing. Her body […]

In the aftermath of Mary Kelly’s murder – which had taken place at some stage on the morning of Friday the 9th of November 1888 – all sorts of theories were circulating as to who the murderer might […]

John McCarthy was Mary Kelly’s landlord, and was the second person to arrive at the scene of her murder – the first being Thomas Bowyer, wo, because he was a pensioner from the Indian Army, was known in […]

As the traffic speeds along the busy Bayswater Road, to the north of Hyde Park, the cars, buses and trucks pass a line of tall white-walled houses set back behind a garden. They are part of a gated […]

There are many curious stories to be found in the pages of the 19th century newspapers. All types of human activity are to be found there, from the antics of William Onions, The East End Poet, to the […]

The Marquess of Waterford was a notorious hell raiser in the 1830s, and his escapades kept the newspapers fed with copy on several occasions. He was also a contender for having been the original Spring Heeled Jack, one […]