Author: Richard Jones

By the dawn of the 19th century, London had a massive public health problem in that the number of dead in the City, had grown to far outnumber that of the living. The dead were in evidence anywhere […]

Today, I’m really going to push the boat out, so to speak, and bring you an x-rayted film from 1897 – sorry, couldn’t resist that one! But, before I get to the film, here is a little background […]

Today we are trialling a new way of bringing you information on the Jack the Ripper murders – whiteboard videos. The first video in our series is  intended as a quick overview of the five “canonical” victims – […]

On June 14th 1870, the nation was in mourning for the loss of the greatest novelist of the era, Charles Dickens, whose funeral had taken place the previous day. HIS WISHES IGNORED Dickens had died at his house […]

Whilst combing the newspaper archives for articles concerning the Whitechapel Murders, I came across two very intriguing articles that appeared in The Leeds Times and The Illustrated Police News on Saturday 15th October 1892. The article in The Leeds […]

For today’s blog we’re going time travelling. In fact, to be precise we’re heading back to Victorian London and paying a visit to Blackfriars Bridge in the year 1896. That’s eight years after the Jack the Ripper murders […]

One of the most remarkable and awe-inspiring sites on our Jack the Ripper tour is the  soaring and majestic tower of Christchurch, Spitalfields. It dominates its surroundings today, just as it did in 1888 and, as we say […]

Today I wanted to pay tribute to a true East End hero, the Revered George Edward Maule Parry who was murdered on D-Day, the 6th of June 1944. As the Padre with the 6th Airborne Division, Padre Parry […]

An intriguing court case took place in 1857 which shows us that, sometimes, the Victorian police were not averse to abusing their power and then blatantly lying about their behaviour to the detriment of ordinary, law-abiding citizens. THEY […]

Wow! Can you believe that the year is half over? It only seems like yesterday that we were seeing in the New Year and launching the first Jack the Ripper quiz of 2016. So, with summer blazing away […]