Author: Richard Jones

One of the things that we cover a lot on our blog, and on our East End tours, is the arrest and subsequent court appearances by those who transgressed in the Victorian era and around the time of […]

You might not immediately associate the likes of Inspector Abberline, Sir Robert Anderson, Sir Charles Warren – nor, for that matter, any of the other detectives involved in the hunt for Jack the Ripper – with either Greek […]

The enquiry into the arrest of Elizabeth Cass by Police Constable Endacott concluded on 26th July 1887. If you missed our article n the enquiry, you can read it here. THE PRESS WAS WITH MISS CASS The next […]

In our previous blog we looked at the arrest and court appearance of Miss Elizabeth Cass, who was arrested by Police Constable Endacott on the 28th June 1887. The next day she appeared in court charged with soliciting […]

Late on the evening of the 28th June 1887, 24-year Elizabeth Cass went out to purchase a pair of gloves from Jay’s millinery shop at 243 to 253 Regent Street in the West End of London. Probably the […]

Did you know that, by tradition, barristers don’t shake hands? By way of clarity, incidentally, I should explain that in England we have two branches of lawyer – solicitors and barristers. Barristers are the ones who wear the […]

One point we often make on our nightly Jack the Ripper walking tour is that, to really come to terms with the Whitechapel atrocities, and the impact they had on Victorian society, you must first place them in […]

One of the recurring themes in the Jack the Ripper case is the fact that almost all the victims inhabited the common lodging houses of Spitalfields. But, what was life like inside them? An article in The Pall […]

Dr. Thomas Bond was the registered police surgeon for A Division, Westminster. HIS LIFE AND CAREER Following his death, several newspapers carried his obituary in which they provided readers with a summary of his life and career:- “Educated […]

One of the intriguing things about East End poverty in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is just how fascinated the middle classes were by it. Books – such as Jack London’s The People of The Abyss […]