Author: Richard Jones

One of the stories that I cover on my London Ghost Walk is the story of the lady who, having died and having been buried, was “brought back to life” when the church verger decided to try and […]

On the 18th of August 1888, The Illustrated Police News, gave its readers a taster of the type of newspaper reporting that would, within a matter of weeks, become extremely familiar to people all over Victorian England. On the […]

A question we get asked time and again on our walking tour of Jack the Ripper’s murder haunts is – who do you think Jack the Ripper was? Our guides often give the only honest answer that can […]

One of the many problems that one encounters when studying Victorian crime and criminals objectively, is the sheer omnipresence of Jack the Ripper in the genre. Indeed, so famous and pervasive have the Whitechapel Murders remained – and […]

One of the things we like to do for people who might be enjoying a day in London when they are going to join our evening Jack the Ripper tour, is suggest out of the way places that […]

In the previous blog we mentioned the letters that were received by Dr Forbes Winslow and Mr Albert Bachert in October 1889, all of which purported to have come from the perpetrator of the Whitechapel Murders. The reason […]

One of the major aspects of the Whitechapel murders is the sheer number of letters that were received which, either offered advice on how to catch the killer, or else actually purported to have been written by the […]

With today seeing the start of the Rio 2016 Olympics, I thought it would be nice to look back on bygone games – and head back to the year 1908 when they were held in London. There’s no […]

It’s August and the Rio Olympics are about to grace our screens and permeate our collective consciousness! So, in honour of the sportsmanship  (and sportswomanship) that is about to parade before us it’s time to get into the […]

By early 1888, the Metropolitan Police were reeling from a series of blows to their public image that had, in many ways, been self inflicted. Chief amongst them had been the case of Miss Elizabeth Cass, the Bloomsbury […]