Author: Richard Jones

Are you ready for our fourth fiendish quiz of 2017? Can you believe that the year is now a quarter over? Time marches on, but our Jack the Ripper monthly challenge is a fixed point in an ever […]

Spare a thought for William Trounce. To be specific, spare a thought for Police Constable William Trounce of the Metropolitan Police’s “A” Division. He was, to all intent and purposes, a conscientious officer, who held the utmost respect […]

As London recovered from the events of Bloody Sunday, the newspapers began reacting to what had happened in the West End in the afternoon and early evening of Sunday 13th November 1887. On Monday 14th November 1887, the […]

It is noticeable how the Jack the Ripper murders succeeded in attracting a great deal of attention to the horrific social conditions that had been allowed to develop, almost unchecked, in certain parts of the East End of […]

No matter what you think about the Victorians, one thing that most certainly cannot be denied is that they were problem solvers to whom obstacles, such as the Channel, were merely hurdles to be overcome. In October 1890 […]

Although the Common Lodging Houses of East London were a source of comment long before the autumn of 1888, the fact that almost all of Jack the Ripper’s victims had spent their final days and years inhabiting them […]

On the 11th September 1888, the East End, and London as a whole, was reeling in shock at what was being seen as the fourth atrocity in the series known as the Whitechapel Murders, which had taken place […]

Today we take photography for granted. It’s all so easy. We can raise our mobile phones, click, and instantly share images of our surroundings, our companions, our families, or even ourselves. In fact, some might argue that narcissism […]

Another murder that took place in London during the year of the Jack the Ripper atrocities was that of a three month old baby, who was murdered by his father Clarence Henry Longman. As with the many cases […]

In the wake of the Jack the Ripper atrocities in Berner Street and Mitre Square – the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes – The Illustrated London News, on October 13th 1888, published an article which began with […]