Author: Richard Jones

In May 1842, following a long and drawn out investigation, the Parliamentary report on “The Employment and Conditions of Children in Mines and Manufactories” was published. The report made harrowing reading, confronting, as it did, the people of […]

The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice is located in Postman’s Park, a delightful City garden, just a short distance away from St Paul’s Underground Station. The actual memorial consists of a single wall on which are located […]

Do you know what Elizabeth Gibbs’s claim to fame is? I only ask because people don’t tend to give her much thought. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the majority of people give […]

In this article I want to tell you about a strange coincidence that I stumbled upon whilst researching an article on the murder of the first of Jack the Ripper’s so-called “canonical five” victims – Mary Anne, “Polly,” […]

One thing is certain about the Whitechapel Murders; they alerted society at large to the horrendous social conditions that had been allowed to develop, relatively unchecked, across the eastern fringe of the World’s wealthiest one square mile – […]

The Common Lodging Houses of Whitechapel and Spitalfields played an integral part in the saga of the Jack the Ripper murders. Indeed, it could be argued that these establishments provided the sordid backdrop against which the story of […]

On the 14th January 1892, the country was stunned by news that HRH Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Queen Victoria’s grandson, and the heir presumptive to the throne, had died at Sandringham House, in Norfolk. […]

One of the criticisms that is often made of television dramas, documentaries and films on the Jack the Ripper murders, is that they often show the murderer stalking his victims through thick London fogs. Time and time again, […]

Well, 2017 is now two weeks old, and another year is, well and truly underway. So, it’s time for our first quiz of the New Year. SCROLL DOWN IF YOU WISH If you know how our quizzes work, […]

It’s always interesting to delve into the newspaper archives and uncover articles that show the area we explore on our nightly Jack the Ripper guided walking tour as it was in the past. Today’s article takes us back […]