Author: Richard Jones

Throughout the 19th century, numerous accounts of ghosts appearing in all parts of the country were reported in the newspapers of the age. Some apparitions’, such as the Plaistow ghost, were proved to be nothing more than mass […]

There is a great deal of commentary on the Police investigation into the Whitechapel murders. It is also well documented that, at the height of the Jack the Ripper scare, numerous amateur detectives head out onto the streets […]

Welcome to our latest quiz. It’s March, it’s 2024, and I hope that those little grey cells are simply buzzing to get down and try your hands – or should that be minds – at our latest challenge. […]

There are some interesting examples of people commenting about things via social media when the poster has followed a hunch as opposed to bothering to do some research in order to establish whether or not their “hunch” is […]

There can be little doubt that, when you sat down to eat in Victorian London – and especially in the poorer parts of the metropolis – you quite literally took your life in your hands; or, to be […]

Browsing the 19th century newspapers, you often come across horrific cases of terrible murders as well as of other crimes. Some of the most horrible of the cases are those crimes in which a parent murdered a child. […]

One of the most tragic, shocking and terrible discoveries that can be found in Victorian newspaper accounts concerning life in the East End of London in the 19th century, is just how many people died of starvation. Indeed, […]

It is now almost impossible to gauge the mood in Whitechapel in the aftermath of the various murder in the autumn of 1888. The only real insights we get today are those that were provided by journalists who […]

The following article was published in The Nottingham Evening Post on Tuesday the 19th of April 1910:- “JACK THE RIPPER” Dr. Forbes Winslow Tells How He Obtained A Clue POLICE RED-TAPISM Dr. Forbes Winslow has issued the following […]

The body of Jack the Ripper’s final victim, Mary Kelly, was discovered at around 10.45 on the morning o Friday the 9th of November, 1888. When the doctors finally got into the room in which her body was […]